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bazik
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 Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:58 pm Post subject: How to install Phoenix (binary) without compiling Mozilla |
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I'll make this quick because its almost 1am and I am very tired 
1. Download latest Phoenix binarys
2. Unpack the tar.gz file. I put it in /opt
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root@genesis root # cd /opt
root@genesis opt # tar zxvf /path/to/your/phoenix-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
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3. Emerge lib-compat
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root@genesis phoenix # emerge -s lib-compat
Searching...
[ Results for search key : lib-compat ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-libs/lib-compat
Latest version available: 1.0-r2
Latest version installed: 1.0-r2
Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: Compatibility c++ and libc5 libraries for programs new and old
root@genesis phoenix # emerge lib-compat
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4. Create a symlink to a missing lib
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root@genesis phoenix # ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
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5. Create a symlink to the Phoenix binary
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root@genesis phoenix # ln -s /opt/phoenix/phoenix /usr/bin/phoenix
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Start it and have fun
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
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on a fresh Gentoo Linux 1.4 without Mozilla installation
Thanks to phoen][x for his ebuild script (which depends on mozilla  ) and unimatrix for the nice IRC session (which kept me awake) and the lib-compat trick 
Hope this helps someone! |
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garion911
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Can you post that ebuild that builds phoenix?
It would come in very handy for those of us running pentiums that can't use the i686 binaries....... I can wait for the compile..
If you don't have the ebuild, I wrote a shell script that handles it, compiles straight from the latest CVS... I can post that.... |
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dob
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 11:52 am Post subject: |
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Interesting topic
I followed your instructions, though I made the symbolic links in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin, seems 'cleaner' to me.
I have mozilla 1.1 installed, and phoenix refused to start.
To clear this, you need to start phoenix with the following command:
| Quote: | | MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/phoenix phoenix |
(works for desktop shortcuts as well )
Now my problem is that phoenix, unlike mozilla, doesn't seem to find my truetype fonts, and thus I have to use awfull non antialiased fonts :/ |
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orochi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 12:30 pm Post subject: unix.js |
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take a look at ur unix.js file in /opt/pheonix/pheonix/defaults/pref/
u have to enable freetype and specify ur ttf path |
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tirantloblanc
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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 I downloaded phoenix0.3 into my homedir, unzipped un run it, i had no problems.
Problems come after installing Mozilla, so i had te create an small script. |
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dob
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: unix.js |
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| orochi wrote: | take a look at ur unix.js file in /opt/pheonix/pheonix/defaults/pref/
u have to enable freetype and specify ur ttf path |
Thanks I had put it in vain in my user.js but editing the system wide file did the trick |
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bazik
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| tirantloblanc wrote: | I downloaded phoenix0.3 into my homedir, unzipped un run it, i had no problems.
Problems come after installing Mozilla, so i had te create an small script. |
You might have a Gcc 2.95 compiled system then.
The way I described above works expecially for Gcc 3.x systems |
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Cardoe
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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If you have Mozilla installed you just need to open up /opt/phoenix/phoenix in your favorite text editor and comment out a few lines to make it play nice.
On lines 38 through 41... just comment them out.
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# honor MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME if it's there
#if [ -n "$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME" ] ; then
# dist_bin="$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME"
#else
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then lastly line 80
This is for Phoenix 0.4 so the line numbers might be different for other versions but probably not.undefined
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H-Pi
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| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 10:31 am Post subject: Re: unix.js |
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| orochi wrote: | take a look at /opt/phoenix/phoenix/defaults/pref/unix.js
u have to enable freetype and specify ur ttf path |
ok:
in the line: pref("font.FreeType2.enable", false); I set false to true, that's how to enable freetype, right?
but I cannot find where to specify my ttf path |
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bazik
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| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: unix.js |
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| H-Pi wrote: | | orochi wrote: | take a look at /opt/phoenix/phoenix/defaults/pref/unix.js
u have to enable freetype and specify ur ttf path |
ok:
in the line: pref("font.FreeType2.enable", false); I set false to true, that's how to enable freetype, right?
but I cannot find where to specify my ttf path |
Here is how my Phoenix looks now: http://0x1337.net/tmp/aa.png (I know, small screen - its my laptop )
And here is the modified part of my unix.js:
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// TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
// if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
// it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min",0);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 0);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.0");
// sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF");
pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype");
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And here are my Phoenix font settings:
Proportional: Serif (Size: 16)
Serif: monotype-arial-iso8859-15
Sans-Serif: monotype-arial-iso8859-15
Monospace: monotype-courier new-iso8859-15 (Size: 12)
Minimum font size: 9
(even the text in this textbox here looks such sweet ) |
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tirantloblanc
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 1:42 am Post subject: |
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why:
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pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 0);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.0");
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And not 64 - 0.8???
Anyway, thanks for your config file. I could make AA work in Phoenix. |
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bazik
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| tirantloblanc wrote: | why:
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pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 0);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.0");
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And not 64 - 0.8???
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When I used 64 and 0.8, the font was blurry and unreadable. Maybe because of the relative small font size I use |
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H-Pi
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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hm, doesn't work for me, fonts are still aliased
I saw I haven't got the dir /usr/share/fonts/truetype, but then he must look in the other to right?
and in galeon AA works perfectly, without any 'hacks' |
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tirantloblanc
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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bAZiK: thanks. I tried it, and i also found the fonts blurrier...
H-Pi: Some fonts are never antialiased. You may need to change your fonts in the options menu. |
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H-Pi
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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ok i know, but the strange thing is I have set the same fonts as I did in galeon
emerged phoenix 0.4 now, doesn't work either |
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