[CLUE-Tech] Galeon + Mozilla = Strange

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:00:45 -0700
Dave Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> Well, I don't know what the problem is.  But that never stopped me
> posting
> before ;-)

Heh.

> > Screenshots at http://www.rockchucker.com/galeon-buggy.html.
> >
> > Note the window title for the mozilla app is "Untitled - Galeon"
> > Note that Mozilla is ignoring all my preferences
> 
> Well, I don't know about galeon and cnet.  But your mozilla window looks
> like
> it's running inside galeon (as a plug-in maybe).  That probably explains
> why
> it ignores your preferences - seems that galeon did some navigator.xul
> link
> to run it for you.  Can you run Mozilla without galeon running?

Yes. Also, why would mozilla activate differently -- I don't run it
differently, or invoke it differently. Same Fvwm2 menu item either way.

> You might keep trying the link - may just be network problems.

Nope, tried it in Netscrape, and it came up just fine, and view source
(galeon) pulls down the whole page.

I'm now wondering if I've stumbled across the problem. I keep finding
"leftover" gnome cruft running on my box. I just noticed
gnome-name-service. 
 
http://mesh.eecs.umich.edu/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-name-service.1.gz
And galeon always leaves behind oafd, and sometimes gconfd. So, I posit
that something I do is activating this "name service", which is noticing
that I've got galeon running, and so somehow redirects the "HTML" object
type to it, instead of just plain running Mozilla, which is what I asked
for. <rant>If it werent' for Pan, I'd probably just give up on
Gnome.</rant>

> > p.s. Note the cool desktop background while you're looking ;-).
> 
> Indeed.

Thanks. Made with the Gimp (oops, another Gnome app)
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