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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:52:09
Message-Id: tkrat.8cc36ef341e96eb0@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost by Alan McKinnon
1 On 11 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Monday 11 January 2010 12:42:26 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> On 11 Jan, Mick wrote:
4 >> > 2010/1/11 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>:
5 >> >> Hi,
6 >> >>
7 >> >> I've tried (for the first time) to install the
8 >> >> source version of firefox
9 >> >> www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7
10 >> >> with useflags
11 >> >> alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de linguas_en sqlite
12 >> >> startup-notification
13 >> >>
14 >> >> It builds just fine,
15 >> >> BUT
16 >> >> when I start firefox I get only a tiny (real tiny!)
17 >> >> window. When I enlarge it (dragging a vertex of the window)
18 >> >> it's just empty.
19 >> >>
20 >> >> I have no idea what went wrong.
21 >> >> (I have renamed ~/.firefox and ~/.mozilla
22 >> >> but this doesn't help either)
23 >> >
24 >> > What do you get when you run /usr/bin/firefox from a terminal?
25 >>
26 >> The same as above!
27 >
28 > What Mick wants is for you to run firefox from a terminal, the copy the output
29 > messages into a mail
30
31 Yes, I've understood.
32 It displays no message, at all, and immediately goes to background.
33
34 I haven't found it , but is there a debug mode?
35
36 Helmut.
37
38 --
39 Helmut Jarausch
40
41 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
42 RWTH - Aachen University
43 D 52056 Aachen, Germany