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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,05:36 QUOTE

FYI,

I finally figured out why Opera did not display most fonts correctly with DSL verion 0.6.0 and newer...

Opera detected the presence of a library, libXft.so  and it tried to use some font serving functions that don't seem to work with DSL.

I could not force Opera to ignore the faulty library, but I could temporarily rename the symlinks to it so that Opera could no longer find the file.

It then started up fine and displayed the fonts correctly.

You need a writable file system in order to do the rename so the Opera extension must be a .dsl package instead of a tar.gz package. That's too bad because Opera runs very well on old dinosaur computers and some of them do not have enough RAM to run the writable file system (not enough iNodes). However, the package will work great on these old computers if they are running with an hd installed DSL.

Opera is now available in two extension formats:

DSL extension:
opera612.dsl

or

Compressed ISO:
opera.ci
operauser.tar.gz

Included with Opera is the flash plugin and a shell wrapper that will automatically start using the JAVA DSL extension if it gets installed at any time.

I also added a script to save your user settings into a customized DSL extension file, so you can customize your settings and then they will be automatically loaded back up along with your other DSL extensions.

Have Fun.
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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,21:26 QUOTE

I'm wondering if renaming the symlinks would affect any other important programs, such as firefox or scite?

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Posted: Aug. 16 2004,00:42 QUOTE

I have removed the opera extension for a short time from the testing area..
There are issues to resolve with the program...

Stay tuned..

73
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Posted: Aug. 16 2004,02:20 QUOTE

FYI,

The symlink rename is temporary. The sequence of commands is:

Rename the symlinks.
Run the applicaiton  (and eventually exit it).
Change the symlinks back to their original names.

So it is possible that some programs will have problems if you use them while Opera is running they should be just fine after you exit the Opera program.

I have not done extensive compatibility testing for other applications while Opera is in use.  I suspect that if the fontserver library is broken for Opera that it is also broken for other programs, but I am not sure.
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Posted: Sep. 12 2004,00:32 QUOTE

Opera is back !
Actually, it's been in testing for some time..
Now in the main area as .tar.gz and in the mydsl_uci as compressed cloop.

Figured I needed to add some closure to this thread..

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