From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 13 21:21:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1601416A400 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:21:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=0bacc5247b601446d5536b53779cb2272a88cb7d=245=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0699813C467 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:21:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=0bacc5247b601446d5536b53779cb2272a88cb7d=245=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id SXI76252; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:21:52 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 881A345055; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:21:52 -0800 (PST) To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:34 EST." <1171401094.34862.76.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1171401712_2391P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:21:52 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20070213212152.881A345055@ptavv.es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helper applications for Firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:21:53 -0000 --==_Exmh_1171401712_2391P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:34 -0500 > > > --=-lf283EX0yDSVgifGrzM4 > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:51 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I am having trouble specifying helper apps for firefox. > > > > If I select "Browse..." and select /usr, I get a list of directories, > > but "local" is not listed. The list does include directories which are > > not (and never have been) present on the system. I see X11R6, bin, doc, > > etc, games, include, kerberos, lib, libexec, sbin, share, src, and > > tmp. Actually present are: > > X11R6/ games/ lib/ local/ sbin/ > > bin/ home/ libdata/ obj/ share/ > > compat/ include/ libexec/ ports/ src/ > > > > compat, home, libdata, local, obj and ports are missing from the firefox > > list, but it adds doc, kerberos, and tmp. Any idea where these come > > from? Is there something saved somewhere? > > > > And, when I open X11R6/bin, there are no files shown. > > > > Other Gnome apps (and I understand that Firefox is not REALLY a Gnome > > app) don't seem to behave like this. > > Probably because you're using linux-firefox, and it's looking > at /compat/linux/usr. If you use the native Firefox (i.e. the one this > list supports) you will get the desired behavior. Doh! So I have a choice of Flash support or helper apps, but not both. Some day maybe linuxpluginwrapper will work on current again. Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1171401712_2391P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFF0ivwkn3rs5h7N1ERAvjhAJ9t++IHrhE/z/VnFKMMh9gVFsor4QCgo6ty IFjA1gv+secyV87BkyQiflY= =D2va -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1171401712_2391P--