seamonkey 1.1

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:20:10 -0600, Charlie Sorsby <crs at sorsby.org> wrote:

>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:20:01 -0600, Charlie Sorsby <crs at sorsby.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Is seamonkey available either as a source distribution (*.tar.gz)
>> > or a binary that will build or run on freeBSD 4.11?
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-February/038421.html
>>
>> You are pretty much on your own. No one of us support FreeBSD 4.x.
>
> I shall repeat one of my questions that should os/version
> independent.  You seem to have overlooked it:

Yes, I did.

>> > Since this address is "gnome at FreeBSD.org" is that an indication
>> > that one must run gnome in order to use seamonkey?
>
> Is gnome required or not?

No, unless you enable the SMB support (gnome-vfs).

Cheers,
Mezz

>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charlie
>
>> > Since this address is "gnome at FreeBSD.org" is that an indication
>> > that one must run gnome in order to use seamonkey?
>> >
>> > I use a simple window manager (fvwm2 -- would be using fvwm but it
>> > went away when I updated to 4.11) or so it appeared in the post-
>> > install menus.  Only found the original in the ports collection
>> > after I'd gone to the trouble of redoing my configuration file.
>> > I'm afraid that I don't like the elaborate (and accordingly
>> > *large*) "environments" like gnome and kde.
>> >
>> > So, is it possible to run seamonkey on freeBSD 4.11 (XF86 4.4.0)?
>> >
>> > If not, can you suggest a good browser.  I have opera which is
>> > mostly OK and I have a version of mozilla which seems to work on
>> > those sites where opera doesn't.  The trouble with mozilla is that
>> > I haven't figured out how to convince it to accept ^H (i.e.
>> > control-H) as a synonym for the backspace key and a few similar
>> > control-key alternatives that don't require that I either have
>> > six-inch fingers or leave the home keys to delete a character and
>> > such.  I don't know how many times I've had to close that bloody
>> > history windoe because my fingers have learnt in a quarter century
>> > of using Unix that ^H *should* work as the character-erase
>> > character.
>> >
>> > So -- what say ye?
>> >
>> > Charlie


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