From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 15 5:47:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from esperi.demon.co.uk (esperi.demon.co.uk [194.222.138.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2456414D35 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 05:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kieran@esperi.demon.co.uk) Received: from cuchulainn.tirnanog (4000@cuchulainn.tirnanog [192.168.1.68]) by esperi.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24028; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:47:10 +0100 Received: from localhost (kieran@localhost) by cuchulainn.tirnanog (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA25180; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:48:29 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:48:29 +0100 (BST) From: Kieran X-Sender: kieran@cuchulainn.tirnanog To: Kremlin Vostok Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape (and others) In-Reply-To: <3ACAB711.571547DE@primus.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Kremlin Vostok wrote: > Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 15:54:25 +1000 Please fix the date on your system. > From: Kremlin Vostok > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: Netscape (and others) > > My question is: > > If one was to download and install netscape communicator/navigator on their > system, and ran it from a terminal that was not a X-Windows one, what would > happen? I know that the standard terminals support a mouse, so would it just > open up in fll screen mode in a terminal, or would it try and run x, and > failing that (if it was not installed) give an error message? > The problem here is the nature of the "non-X" windowing system. It behaves like a DOS window. This means that you get only text. This is not a problem as far as using a mouse to cut'n'paste is concerned. Since Netscape is a graphical browser, your idea is a non-starter. You will not be able to display the contents of the browser. I don't know what you want to use NS for. Perhaps lynx (a console based browser) would meet your needs. I is supplied in the ports collection. > Oh, and say it did open without needing X-Windows, how would i open up > multiple windows of netscape. I'm assuming one in each tty, but then how > would I know what page I was up to on which? If you are serious about this, perhaps xemacs w3 would suit your needs for multiple windows. Haven't tried it, so don't quote me. Only advice I have is don't try xemacs on a 486 w/8Mb! Regards Kieran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message