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I think Abiword worked in BL2 before the update, but now after giving 
locale warnings:

Xlib:  extension "Xfree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".

A web search reveals that I had this same problem earlier with BL2 and 
fixed it by using the SVGA server, but now that only gives me locale 
warnings and goes back to the prompt without this message. (Using either
version of X11 - from SW71 and SW11)

If I try starting it without wm (Xvesa -screen...) I get only Xvesa.

Strace gives me a upeek input/output error similar to when firefox and 
seamonkey would not load before updating libpthread.  I have ALL the glibc 
2.3.6 libraries now.  Abiword is I think uclibc-static so should not care 
about glibc anyway.

Did I break something another way?

Steven, does abiword work for you in BL2?

It works when I chroot to BL3.50 (default wm).



xv, xpdf, dillo, links2 -g (delilinux) and mtpaint load


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Minor browser problems:

Seamonkey and Firefox in Slackware 11 display their names in the blue 
strip at the top of the icewm window (using BL2 icewm package).  In BL2 
they do not. Other X programs (except dillo) display their names in BL2, 
including Opera.

Opera 9.6 fonts still do not display as expected.  There seem to be only 
two available fonts.  The chosen fonts display properly in the preferences 
menu but not at a website.

I tried SVGA server as well as Xvesa.  In SW11 fonts display correctly.

With glibc 2.3.6 at Opera startup I now get not only locale messages but 
something about LD_PRELOAD not loading libjvm.so and libawt.so.  SW11 has 
these files in a jre directory (java?).  This can be ignored.

I have one Speedstream DSL modem which probably needs to be accessed with 
a java browser.  Does Firefox support java without adding anything?

My partner was using XP to browse and is delighted to have Firefox and 
Seamonkey working now in linux instead.

Sindi Keesan