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curaga

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,06:52

Firefox 2.0.0.4 worked just fine with gtk2-0705.dsl from MyDSL, so 2.0.0.6 will too.
Opera 9.1 worked nicely on plain DSL, so I think 9.22 will too

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,10:21

I'm very happy!

I got Opera 9.22 installed and it seems to be working fine (including speeddial).
Nevertheless, there are a few "issues" where I'd appreciate your
comments:

1) The only way I can get Opera 9.22 to launch is through a terminal. No icon appeared on install, nor any reference to it in any of the dropdown menus on the desktop.

2) I had first installed Opera 8.52 (My DSL), then Opera 9.0 (UCI) then Opera 9.22 (tar.gz from Opera website). However, they installed as separate apps rather than the newer version installing over the older one. Strange. Is this normal?

3) Yesterday, I shutdown the computer with both Opera 8.52 and Opera 9.0 installed which gave TWO Opera icons on the desktop. Today, when I booted into DSL, the Opera 9.0 icon had gone AWOL -- nowhere to be found. Should I have manually uninstalled the earlier version? If so, how?

Thanks
Paul

curaga

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,10:41

1 & 2) it's normal, since the generic Opera tarball was not made for DSL, whereas MyDSL extensions were. You could just use the icon & menu entry from 9.0 by just modifying the paths..

3) it's a uci, so it was unmounted on shutdown, and it seems it's not in your /mydsl dir so it was not automatically mounted..

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curaga

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,10:43

The generic Opera tarball includes some icons - one xpm and some pngs - but the icon setting file included is only compatible with kde, gnome and xfce..

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PaulFXH

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Posted: Aug. 11 2007,14:50

OK, I modified the properties of the Opera 8.52 icon on the Desktop and now it's an icon for Opera 9.22. So, that's perfect.
I need to uninstall the two earlier versions of Opera which I'm never going to use but haven't yet come across how to uninstall things in DSL.
BTW, another one slight problem with Opera in DSL is that (on my computer at least) no minimize/shutdown buttons appear in the top RH corner. So to shutdown Opera I have to go File>Exit and I cannot minimize which is a pity.
(Note that these buttons do appear in the two versions of Firefox I tried).

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