seamonkey 1.1

Charlie Sorsby crs at sorsby.org
Tue Feb 6 22:40:43 UTC 2007


Hello,

Is seamonkey available either as a source distribution (*.tar.gz)
or a binary that will build or run on freeBSD 4.11?

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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