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neuron
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until there are source ebuilds in the tree this should be stick'ed, phoenix is genius  |
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kemical
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uhm i run the cvs command but it just sits there... i left it for like 3 hours and i didnt see a change , it just sits there, is this supposed to happen or what?
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airhead
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Compile your own phoenix web browser |
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| vers_iq wrote: |
Oh i almost forgot, u might notice from the screen shot under preferences, the fonts are named quite different way, this is because this source uses xft2 so u need to unmask xft and install it first and yeah it uses xft2 and all the fonts are AA'ed by default, u dont have to mess with unix.js even | Code: | | pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true/false); |
is set as false.
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Could you please explain that again? I'm not quite sure what you mean 
I would like to use FreeType 2 for the font rendering instead of Xft2 but where do I stick this:
| Code: | | pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true/false); |
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DarkE
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 11:14 am Post subject: |
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You have to compile Phoenix against freetype, instead of xft(2).
For this reason you have to edit your .mozconfig in the right way. I don't know the configure-options but you can try to find out.
What i know is that you have do alter this line in your .mozconfig
| Code: | | ac_add_options --enable-xft |
to | Code: | | ac_add_options --disable-xft |
Of course, you have to recompile Phoenix. |
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ejwahl
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| kemical wrote: | | uhm i run the cvs command but it just sits there... i left it for like 3 hours and i didnt see a change , it just sits there, is this supposed to happen or what? |
I've been running this command since last night:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot checkout mozilla/browser mozilla/toolkit
and I keep on receiving a "connection refused" message. Guess Mozilla CVS isn't working this weekend...
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lx
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| ejwahl wrote: | | kemical wrote: | | uhm i run the cvs command but it just sits there... i left it for like 3 hours and i didnt see a change , it just sits there, is this supposed to happen or what? |
I've been running this command since last night:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot checkout mozilla/browser mozilla/toolkit
and I keep on receiving a "connection refused" message. Guess Mozilla CVS isn't working this weekend... |
Look at: http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html
| Code: | export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
cvs -z3 checkout -PA mozilla/client.mk
make -f mozilla/client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_FLAGS=-PA |
Cya lX.
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ejwahl
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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lX,
Doesn't work. I still receive a "connection refused" message. I can CVS with WineX but not with Mozilla. This problem started about 12 hours ago.
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moshman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I am seeing the same problem. According to the folks at #mozilla on irc.mozilla.com, cvs-mirrors.mozilla.org is dead. I suspect this is the problem you're seeing. |
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kemical
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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i think the cvs is back up, im running the cvs command according to lx and it seems to be going to so far
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moshman
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 10:47 pm Post subject: If you want AA without recompiling phoenix, try this. |
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I spent a good while last night trying to get phoenix to compile with the ebuild , but kept getting errors. After a little research and experimentation, I discovered that you don't have to recompile phoenix-bin-0.4 for it to have AA xft font support. (You'll still need to have gtk2 and it's dependencies on your system though, I assume.)
From the Phoenix helper FAQ: http://texturizer.net/phoenix/faq.html#1.9
It seems you can download one of the mozilla nightlies with xft built in and use the libgfx_gtk from it. It seems to work fine, and is much less work.
You'll want to read the manpage for rpm2cpio though, if you don't know how to extract individual files from an rpm. |
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kemical
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ive gotten phoenix to compile and run, and aa fonts work, but how do i get phoenix to use my current gtk2 theme, etc? o rjust make it look like the screenshots shown on this thread? its still ugly and grey :[
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zenexsys
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 5:30 am Post subject: |
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What you need is some themes for pheonix:
http://texturizer.net/phoenix/themes.html
BTW, what gtk2 version are you using?
I am having some problem getting it to compile with gtk+ 2.1.1
Something about nsScrollBar and nsWindows errors  |
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kappax
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| odd, i compiled ok the fist time, it worked, but ugly fonts, then i enabled xft and recompiled and when i try to start it then it does nothing, wates a few seconds then ends, and i did have xft ebuild compiled. |
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morck
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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hi
zenexsys:
I have the same Problem with both 2.1.1 and 2.0.8
kappax:
This seems to be not just a phoenix Problem because I get the same result when I compile mozilla-1.2b.
cu Morck |
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mkb137
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I was having it just quit when I ran pheonix. Turns out I needed to start the xft server ("xfs start" in /etc/init.d). |
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kappax
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| Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject: script for starting phoenix |
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I have made a bash script to start phonenix, i have droped it in to /usr/bin
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#!/bin/bash
TEST=""
#checks to see if phoenix is running allready
TEST=`ps -ax | grep phoenix | grep usr | grep sh | grep lib | awk '{print $1}'`
if test "$TEST" = ""
then
echo -e "Phoenix is not already started - Starting new"
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/phoenix/lib/mozilla-1.2b"
/usr/lib/phoenix/bin/phoenix
else
#because phoenix is running any call to mozilla wil then be phoenix, this makes it so you are not asked about the profile of running 2 phoenixes, so you can click on your phonix icon many times.
echo -e "Phoenix is started - running mozilla insted"
/usr/bin/mozilla
fi
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keschrich
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I've followed all the instructions from the first post, first using a nightly build of mozilla and then getting phoenix from cvs, and then when that didnt work I tried doing both from cvs.. in both cases I'm not getting a phoenix-bin file in /usr/lib/mozilla. I thought the fix was simple enough so I copied the file over from /usr/src/mozilla/browser/app , after which I got:
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/usr/lib/mozilla/phoenix-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/mozilla/phoenix-bin: undefined symbol: _ZTI24nsASingleFragmentCString
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Heres what I did to compile:
1. Unpack mozilla build
2. checkout phoenix code as in post on in this thread
3. Create .mozconfig:
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export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
mk_add_options MOZ_PHOENIX=1
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --with-x
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-mng
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --disable-pedantic
ac_add_options --disable-svg
ac_add_options --enable-mathml
ac_add_options --without-system-nspr
ac_add_options --enable-nspr-autoconf
ac_add_options --disable-ipv6
ac_add_options --enable-xsl
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --enable-xinerama=no
ac_add_options --with-java-supplement
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/phoenix
ac_add_options --with-user-appdir=.phoenix
ac_add_options --disable-jsd
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-dtd-debug
ac_add_options --disable-logging
ac_add_options --enable-reorder
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
ac_add_options --enable-cpp-rtti
ac_add_options --enable-xterm-updates
ac_add_options --enable-toolkit-gtk
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk
ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-qt
ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-xlib
ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-gtk2
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers
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4. at bash prompt:
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export S=/usr/src/use/mozilla
export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
export MOZ_CALENDAR=0
export MOZ_ENABLE_XFT=1
export CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -s -fforce-addr"
export CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -s -fforce-addr"
export CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -s -fforce-addr -Wno-deprecated"
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5. make -j2
6. make install |
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kemical
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:55 am Post subject: |
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ive installed a theme for phoenix, but how to change it from the default colors of the grey and boxy scroll bars? ive have gtk1 and 2 installed on here and im guessing its a gtk1 default scheme, could someone point me in theright direction to changing this?
[url]kemical.kicks-ass.org/~kemical/screens/phoenix.jpg[/url]
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| keschrich wrote: | | I've followed all the instructions from the first post, first using a nightly build of mozilla and then getting phoenix from cvs, and then when that didnt work I tried doing both from cvs.. in both cases I'm not getting a phoenix-bin file in /usr/lib/mozilla. I thought the fix was simple enough so I copied the file over from /usr/src/mozilla/browser/app , after which I got: |
Why not simply use the ebuild that worked for so many others? I'm using a build from CVS (an hour or so ago) that I installed using the ebuild with no problem. |
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kappax
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:38 am Post subject: |
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comming soone, a way to make phoenix start even faster!! even on the fist time!! ultrafast !
can be used for mozilla too, but i would not do it with mozilla. |
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| kappax wrote: | | comming soone, a way to make phoenix start even faster!! even on the fist time!! ultrafast ! |
How "soone" can we expect more details regarding this enigmatic posting?  |
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kappax
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| dreamer3 wrote: | | kappax wrote: | | comming soone, a way to make phoenix start even faster!! even on the fist time!! ultrafast ! |
How "soone" can we expect more details regarding this enigmatic posting? |
well i am going to bed so some time when i get up after work, but a hit, you can work on it too , but i got allt he grub worked out,
this is not for ppl that have little ram, it invalvs making a ramdisk and putting phoneix on the ram disk and it starts from ram, takes about 60 megs,
so if ppl want to get started, you will need ram disk support in your knerel, and set the default size to 60 megs if you dont want to recompile kernel, just wate fill i make the offical post i have a way of getting the supoort without having to recompile the knerel .
super fast every time |
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dreamer3
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:04 am Post subject: |
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this is not for ppl that have little ram, it invalvs making a ramdisk and putting phoneix on the ram disk and it starts from ram, takes about 60 megs,
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super fast every time |
Do you have benchmarks to show the difference? I have 768mb of memory and after the initial launch of Phoenix it is cached completely (ie, ramdisk speed) and subsequent launches don't hit the disk... however there is still 2 seconds of load time for me (down from 4 seconds with 0.4 release binary). |
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kappax
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| dreamer3 wrote: | | kappax wrote: |
this is not for ppl that have little ram, it invalvs making a ramdisk and putting phoneix on the ram disk and it starts from ram, takes about 60 megs,
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super fast every time |
Do you have benchmarks to show the difference? I have 768mb of memory and after the initial launch of Phoenix it is cached completely (ie, ramdisk speed) and subsequent launches don't hit the disk... however there is still 2 seconds of load time for me (down from 4 seconds with 0.4 release binary). |
no becnmarks, but what i am aiming for, is even under super Heavy disk IO my browser will not take time, because i think even if it is cached, at one point and time i think it has to re some data to satart (even if cached) and having it cached does not ganrentee that it will always be cached.
i am working on cuttcing dow the ram drive to only 30 megs, the only problem i can see is that it adds some time to boot, but i am workong on that too, to do the prosses after boot it takes 3 seconds to set up, but at boot it looks like it is taking up to 10 seconds, so am am not sure. The only thing about putting it in to a rad disk is that it is garenteed to use no disk IO every time.
the 2 second time seems to be standard, I am thinking if recompiling phoenix with heave CPU optmizations, because when in ram drive, it is all up to cpu, less on IO. my entire /usr/lib/phoenix is in the ram drive. |
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Delphiki
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:30 pm Post subject: phoenix |
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well, I tried this and got it up and running and I think Phoenix is great. While it doesn't load as fast as IE it loads a lot faster than Mozilla and I'm glad I've finally got a good browser that is just a browser. The fonts look much better.. my only wish is that someone would write a Qt port of phoenix and/or mozilla.
P.S. I noticed that there are no icons for Phoenix installed (at least not that I can find) is this normal? The X icon in the corner isn't exactly a major issue but a Phoenix icon would be nice.
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