Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird problems on current
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/09/2004 13:33:16
On 01/08 23:30, Tomas wrote:
>
> --- Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > If you're building with MOZILLA_USE_XFT, try running
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache -fv. Emphasis on the
> > /usr/X11R6. I've had
> > Mozilla Firebird behave as you describe. In fact,
> > it now seems to "go
> > bad" at least once a week. Rebuilding the
> > fontconfig cache (_only_ with
> > the fc-cache binary built from xsrc) brings it back
> > to life.
>
> Very interesting info, thank you! Does it mean that I
> need to build X from source too (I'm currently runing
> Xfree 4.2 which came with NetBSD 1.6)?
No, you don't have to build X. I just meant that the pkgsrc version of
fc-cache didn't work for me.