Frank Wille wrote:
Just for the record, replying to myself concerning the complete lockup of Firefox and Epiphany when started under Gnome 2.18: I found out it has to do with dbus-launch. When running Gnome, or a different window-manager, without it, then the browsers work flawlessly. Because I realized that without dbus-launch the "theme" in Gnome is lost, I experimented with different themes, and by using "Glider" instead of "Clearlooks" I was finally successful. Firefox no longer freezes! So changing the theme seems to be a workaround, but there is a problem somewhere (fonts?) !
Hi Frank, For what it's worth, I've been using Gnome 2.16 on macppc (3.1) for the past year without much trouble. (I can make Nautilus crash fairly predictably if I download new documents like PDFs to my desktop, but that's about it.) I've been hesitating to upgrade because I assumed there were probably hurdles like this. Concerning a problem with fonts, are you referring to Firefox? If so, see my comments in the following postings: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2006/11/06/0001.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2007/10/19/0000.html I'll be upgrading to 4.0 shortly so I'll see if that changes anything. I believe people have found running -current is better for Firefox. Regards, Dave