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h2sammo
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 Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: www-client/surf blank page on startup [solved] |
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has anyone tried this browser?
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Available versions: (~)0.4.1 {savedconfig}
Installed versions: 0.4.1(16:08:02 01/27/11)(savedconfig)
Homepage: http://surf.suckless.org/
Description: a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+
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everytime i start it i get a blank page with no possibility of interacting with it.
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Bones McCracker
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:19 am Post subject: |
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i read it. there is no response to my commands.
here is what the terminal shows when i try Ctrl - g
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bobby@main ~ $ surf
_SURF_URI: dmenu: command not found
cut: write error: Broken pipe
_SURF_URI: dmenu: command not found
cut: write error: Broken pipe |
i am using gnome desktop... i dont know if matters. i dont have dmenu installed nor was it pulled in as a dependency for surf |
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Bones McCracker
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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It worked back when I tried it.
Maybe dmenu should be a dependency?
Dmenu is tiny. I'd try emerging it and see if surf works then. If not, I'd file a bug. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, i emerged dmenu and now it works wonderfully. i love this little browser. i will try to file a bug |
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Bones McCracker
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Glad it works. Let me know if you have trouble filing the bug.
Add [Solved] to the subject line of the original post.
By the way, another cool little tool is surfraw. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| i read up on surfraw before this but i didnt understand how if would work from the description on its main page. |
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Bones McCracker
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:23 am Post subject: |
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Looks good. If you unmerge surf, don't forget to unmerge dmenu.
I use an extremely minimal window manager by surfraw called dwm. The whole thing is less than 2,000 lines of C code. It uses dmenu. |
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h2sammo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| where do i paste the autologin script for surf? |
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Bones McCracker
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| h2sammo wrote: | | where do i paste the autologin script for surf? |
I don't know. You have probably surpassed my knowledge of it at this point. I only tried it briefly once. Sorry.
Do read the man page. I know there's a config file. You can run things via dmenu. It's addressable via X properties or similar. There may be some help, scripts, extensions, etc. on the web site. That's about all I can tell you. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | Looks good. If you unmerge surf, don't forget to unmerge dmenu.
I use an extremely minimal window manager by surfraw called dwm. The whole thing is less than 2,000 lines of C code. It uses dmenu. |
surfraw != surf. surfraw isn't written by the same person/people who wrote surf or dwm. The only similarity between them is that they let you browse the web and have similar names.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| dreadlorde wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | Looks good. If you unmerge surf, don't forget to unmerge dmenu.
I use an extremely minimal window manager by surfraw called dwm. The whole thing is less than 2,000 lines of C code. It uses dmenu. |
surfraw != surf. surfraw isn't written by the same person/people who wrote surf or dwm. The only similarity between them is that they let you browse the web and have similar names. |
You are confused. Nobody here thinks surf is surfraw or is confused about the difference between them.
But I see that I probably (somehow) caused that confusion when I erroneously attributed to dwm to "surfraw" when I meant to say "suckless".  |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | dreadlorde wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | Looks good. If you unmerge surf, don't forget to unmerge dmenu.
I use an extremely minimal window manager by surfraw called dwm. The whole thing is less than 2,000 lines of C code. It uses dmenu. |
surfraw != surf. surfraw isn't written by the same person/people who wrote surf or dwm. The only similarity between them is that they let you browse the web and have similar names. |
You are confused. Nobody here thinks surf is surfraw or is confused about the difference between them.
But I see that I probably (somehow) caused that confusion when I erroneously attributed to dwm to "surfraw" when I meant to say "suckless". |
That would be what caused the confusion.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| dreadlorde wrote: | | That would be what caused the confusion. |
Please accept my apologies for said confusion. |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: |
Please accept my apologies for said confusion. |
Save them for later.  It's not like you kicked my grandmother in the chest or anything.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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ha, von Mises to the rescue  |
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