www-client/surf blank page on startup [solved]

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h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:11 pm

has anyone tried this browser?

[I] www-client/surf
     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+

everytime i start it i get a blank page with no possibility of interacting with it.

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:04 am

ctrl+g

Reading the man page might be helpful:

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man surf

http://man.suckless.org/surf/1/surf

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:19 am

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

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:08 pm

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.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:52 pm

yeah, i emerged dmenu and now it works wonderfully. i love this little browser. i will try to file a bug

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:07 pm

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.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:34 am

i read up on surfraw before this but i didnt understand how if would work from the description on its main page.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:06 am

i filed this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353105

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:23 am

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.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:10 pm

where do i paste the autologin script for surf?

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:56 pm

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.

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:17 pm

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.

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:27 pm

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".

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:13 pm

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.

Bones McCracker · Post by **Bones McCracker** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:27 pm

dreadlorde wrote:That would be what caused the confusion.

Please accept my apologies for said confusion.

dreadlorde · Post by **dreadlorde** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:31 pm

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.

h2sammo · Post by **h2sammo** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:06 pm

ha, von Mises to the rescue