Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 16:37:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "A. Anderson" <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape and 2.1.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960825162939.1220A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608252138.OAA05655@kithrup.com>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > I installed 2.1.5-RELEASE yesterday, and have been trying to get netscape > working. > > I'm currently using Netscape-gold 3.0b8, although I've also tried their 3.0 > release version (in both cases, the x86-unknown-bsd version). > > I have a couple of problems running it: > > 1. It complains about syntax errors and missing keysyms, even when I use > the netscape-supplied XKeysymDB file. A sample: > > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate > Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate:activate()' >[snip] > 2. The other problem is that it does not recognize my backspace or delete > key, which, given that I am not a perfect typist, does cause problems ;). > > I asked Jordan, but he didn't seem to know about it... anyone know what's > going on here? > > Thanks, > > Sean. > Yes, you need these two "setenv" lines somewhere: # System-wide .cshrc file for csh(1). setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB setenv XNLSPATH /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls making sure that the relevant files are actually there. The port of netscape puts the real binary in netscape.bin and creates a file called netscape that sets these variables. But the port it uses is almost inevitably out of date. If you then get a more recent binary, you can copy it to netscape.bin without having to do any sort of configuration. This too is covered in http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html. Annelise
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