Sunday, July 30, 2006

Firefox issue in Debian sid repository


Akula invited me to
play a online game EVE,which
need some DirectX9 features.So I need swap my two video card
(Radeon 7200 and Radeon 8500) in two boxes.Although 8500 is not a
DirectX9 card but it is more powerful than 7200.

Everything went smoothly(switch to radeon driver,load drm
module,restart gdm),except firefox----some text were hidden in
webpage,both acsii and Chinese text because they had the same color
with page's bgcolor.When I selected hidden text with mouse they
could appear normal,oberviously this is some problem about X11
font.

some screenshots:(from linuxsir.org)






TangSDX
gave a solution.

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

firefox



But launching ff from console by type some command sounds like not
a sound idea and I do know how to edit gnome menu item to export an
environment viarable before execute some program.



So I edited firefox script like this:



su

cd /usr/lib/firefox

emacs firefox

find a line like this export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO

modify it to export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

save file

logout



launch ff from gnome main menu



now everything perfect!



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