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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> when I ran Opera like this:
> -----------------------
> opera -geometry 800x600
> -----------------------
> That fixed it permanently.  Now opera always appears
> in a proper window (even when I start it without the
> -geometry parameter).

That worked for me, too.  Now it always opens with title bar containing 
buttons.  Thanks for the tip.  But in other testing, opera's not working 
quite right for me.  This is on a fresh qemu image, with just the library 
upgrades your and David's posts suggested.  More below.

> Yes, apparently plug-ins need motif.  I fixed that by
> adding two libraries:  libXt and libXm (Slackware 4.0).
> Then did ldconfig to link the libraries.  Everything
> is working now.

I searched for libXt and libXm in Slack 4.0 and, so far as I could tell 
they were in packages contained in the x1 directory: 
oldlibs(something).tgz and lt(something).tgz.  Does that sound correct?  I 
added those packages to the system, then ran ldconfig.  But I still get 
the error message on startup about motif needing to be installed.  Are you 
saying that installing those packages/libraries got rid of the error 
message on your system?  It didn't do so for me: I tried on 2 different 
test installs (qemu).  Furthermore, I've run into some program misbehavior 
as well.

> I'm pleased with the speed of this opera on my old P-166.
> It definitely performs better on old hardware than Firefox.

It's really sluggish under my BL qemu installs: maybe that's to do mostly 
with the emulation lag?  But more than that, it seems to just hang at some 
sites, taking up alot of CPU but not fully rendering the page (i.e., after 
several minutes waiting).  One site where the problem seems worst is at 
Yahoo.  Could you try going to Yahoo and clicking on some of the news 
stories links?  It typically happens that when I click on a link, or maybe 
on a second link within the story at the first link I've followed, I get 
this kind of hanging.  It will render about the first quarter of the page 
(Yahoo logo and maybe the first paragraph of the story), then just stop. 
After several minutes, it still looks the same, despite the fact that it 
seems to be continuing to load.

Maybe you've added some other bits to your system that make it run more 
smoothly?  It does seem that Opera will be the best choice for a 
full-featured graphical browser for BL users.  Some detailed directions 
for getting it installed seem to be needed, though.

Thanks, James