Re: Mozilla -- No running window. (problem solved)
On Monday 05 April 2004 21:50, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Monday 05 April 2004 21:07, Matthew Seaman wrote: ... > > The next part -- no Mozilla window appearing -- is definitely > > incorrect behaviour. You will need to wait for a while for Mozilla to > > get itself sorted out if this is the first time you've ever run it, > > but no longer than five minutes maximum. > > Five minutes is a very long time in the computer world; at least for > program initialisation. > I was probably too impatient. I'll do a clean up and try again tomorrow -- > the machine in question is at work while I'm addressing these questions > from home. > It appears I was too impatient -- now working. Documentation seems to be very poor. I've just finished chasing information on how to bring the micro text in menus and toolbars up to a readable size. Thanks for the help. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mozilla -- No running window.
Hello, Try remove $HOME/.mozilla and then run mozilla On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:29:55PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Today I installed FreeBSD4.9 from an ISO release > recorded on a CD; together with X windows (4.3). > > I've set ctwm as my windows manager via ports. And all appears > to be working well. > > I installed mozilla-gtk2-1.4 from the packages on the > distribution disk. This appeared to proceed OK. But when I attempt > to run mozilla from an xterm: > QuoVadis:> mozilla > I get the message: > No running window. > and mozilla appears to do nothing further. > > Am I missing something? Do I need to somehow setup for the user? > Do I just have to wait a very long time for the initial execution > to appear to do something useful? > > I can't find any man pages or an info entry or any helpful > documentation. Presumably there is a some sort of help menu once > you have the thing running. > > Mozilla is well known -- it must work better than this -- so > I must be doing something stupid; even though I've been working > with various releases of FreeBSD for many years. > > Please point me in the right direction. > > Malcolm Kay > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mozilla -- No running window.
On Monday 05 April 2004 21:07, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:29:55PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > I installed mozilla-gtk2-1.4 from the packages on the > > distribution disk. This appeared to proceed OK. But when I attempt > > to run mozilla from an xterm: > > QuoVadis:> mozilla > > I get the message: > > No running window. > > and mozilla appears to do nothing further. > > The 'No running window' message is entirely normal -- all that means > is that Mozilla has checked to make sure there isn't another instance > of itself already running in your session. If there was, it would > simply make that instance open a new window on any URL you gave it on > the command line. Understood (now). For somwone new to the application it is somewhat cryptic. > > The next part -- no Mozilla window appearing -- is definitely > incorrect behaviour. You will need to wait for a while for Mozilla to > get itself sorted out if this is the first time you've ever run it, > but no longer than five minutes maximum. Five minutes is a very long time in the computer world; at least for program initialisation. I was probably too impatient. I'll do a clean up and try again tomorrow -- the machine in question is at work while I'm addressing these questions from home. Thanks -- I'll let you know when it works -- thanks again. Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mozilla -- No running window.
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:59, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Today I installed FreeBSD4.9 from an ISO release > recorded on a CD; together with X windows (4.3). > > I've set ctwm as my windows manager via ports. And all appears > to be working well. > > I installed mozilla-gtk2-1.4 from the packages on the > distribution disk. This appeared to proceed OK. But when I attempt > to run mozilla from an xterm: > QuoVadis:> mozilla Last I checked mozilla-gtk2 uses it's own startup script /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla-gtk2 which points it's lib path to /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla-gtk2 instead of the usual /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla Try starting it with QuoVadis:>mozilla-gtk2 about:blank Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Mozilla -- No running window.
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:29:55PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I installed mozilla-gtk2-1.4 from the packages on the > distribution disk. This appeared to proceed OK. But when I attempt > to run mozilla from an xterm: > QuoVadis:> mozilla > I get the message: > No running window. > and mozilla appears to do nothing further. The 'No running window' message is entirely normal -- all that means is that Mozilla has checked to make sure there isn't another instance of itself already running in your session. If there was, it would simply make that instance open a new window on any URL you gave it on the command line. The next part -- no Mozilla window appearing -- is definitely incorrect behaviour. You will need to wait for a while for Mozilla to get itself sorted out if this is the first time you've ever run it, but no longer than five minutes maximum. If you've done that, and there is still nothing apparently happening, can you check and see if there if are any Mozilla processes actually running: # ps -auxww | grep moz If there are, you'll have to kill them off before retrying. If Mozilla is absolutely failing to start (which can be tricky to detect as it runs beneath a layer of shell scripts) finding out why has to be a good step. Double check that the Mozilla binary has all of the shlibs it needs available: % ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin If that's all OK, the next thing to try is moving aside any ~/.mozilla directory you may have particularly if it was created by an older version of Mozilla. Sometimes files generated by the older versions give the newer ones problems. Then try running mozilla again. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...
On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > forgot to mention, i already tried a rebuild "WITHOUT_XFT=YES". no dice. > > > -- > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:48:55 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less... > > > hello all, > > alas, i haven't yet found the solution via google or mozillazine.org. > here's the problem... > > > mozilla-gtk2 > > No running window found. > > > and nothing else happens. with firefox, it's even worse. i don't even get > the error message. just nada. > > i suspect that it has something to do with fonts, because i added some font > packages at the same time as i portupgraded mozilla (which was working > previously). > > hoping that someone will spot the problem rather than having to uninstall > and test each font package... > > > pkg_info | grep -i font > > XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_3 XFree86-4 font server > XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts > XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts > XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0 XFree86-4 Cyrillic fonts > XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts > XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files > XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0 XFree86-4 scalable fonts > Xft-2.1.2_1 A client-sided font API for X applications > artwiz-fonts-1.0_1 A set of free fonts for X11 desktops > bitstream-vera-1.10 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection > code2000-1.13 Shareware demo Unicode TrueType font > fontconfig-2.2.90_4 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows > freefonts-0.10_2A collection of ATM fonts (not all free) from the CICA > arch freetype-1.3.1_2A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine > freetype2-2.1.5_2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine > gucharmap-gnome-1.2.0_1 A Unicode/ISO10646 character map and font viewer > lfpfonts-fix-0.82 Fixed width fonts from the Linux Font Project > lfpfonts-var-0.83 Variable width fonts from the Linux Font Project > linux-urw-fonts-2.0_1 Truetype fonts for use with Linux programs > mkitalic-1.0Perl script to make BDF font italic > mplayer-fonts-0.50 A font pack for the mplayer OSD and SUB > nexfontsel-3.0 A neXtaw based replacement for xfontsel > nucleus-0.77_2 Another font package for X > p5-type1inst-0.6.1 A script that helps install Postscript fonts in X > Window Sy ppantsfonts-0.7 A set of small angular fonts > sgifonts-1.0.1 Fonts from the SGI ProPack 1.4 for Linux > sharefonts-0.10 A collection of shareware ATM fonts from the CICA > archives terminus-font-4.00_1 Terminus Font - a clean fixed width font > tkfont-1.1_2A Tk based replacement for xfontsel > ttmkfdir-0.0_1 Create fonts.scale file for use with TrueType font > server urwfonts-1.0Another font package for X > urwfonts-ttf-1.0.7b18 Unicode TrueType from URW extended by Valek Filippov > webfonts-0.21_1 TrueType core fonts for the Web > > mozilla doesn't seem to build with debugging support by default, so i'm > going to try to rebuild it (yet again) and see if i can make anything of > the gdb info. > > in the meantime, if anyone has a suggestion, i'm all ears. :) > > > thanks! > epi Have you tried deleting ~/.mozilla, logging out and logging back in? (Before you try this, you may wish to move the bookmark file to a safe place.) Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mozilla, no running window. Firefox, even less...
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:46:07 -0600 "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried deleting ~/.mozilla, logging out and logging back in? > (Before you try this, you may wish to move the bookmark file to a safe > place.) > > Andrew Gould > Hello Andrew, Already did that with my main user. Noticed that root still had its old .mozilla folder, so I gave it another try, just for fun: # cd /root # rm -rf .mozilla # mozilla-gtk2 No running window found. # Sigh. Thanks, Epi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
