[Sussex] Finally got Gentoo working :o)

[Stephen Williams]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 12:19 -0500, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> After all this time, I finally had the time & energy to battle my computer's
> refusal to install any OS other than Slackware. Finally, I have sucessfully
> installed Gentoo.
> 
> Very impressed with portage so far. After Slackware (no dependency check) and a
> play around with LFS (no dependency check) it's nice to actually be able to
> tell it "just install this" and it'll get on and do it instead of whining about
> the stuff it needs.
> 
> There's just a couple of minor niggles I'd appreciate some feedback on:
> 
> Firstly, fonts are displaying really small in a few places - here and there in
> web pages in Firefox, on GKrellM, etc. Is there someplace in X's config that
> says "When in doubt, use THIS font", and Slack uses a bigger one than other
> distros, or what?

For gtk based apps, emerge:

emerge gtk-theme-switch

Then run:

switch 2

A dialog box pops up that allows you to set gtk based application
settings such as colour themes and fonts. Works a treat on evolution as
well.

> 
> And the other thing is actually not gentoo-specific, but it was something I
> hoped upgrading to the 2.6 kernel would fix. When I first installed Slack, it
> had the 2.4.22 kernel, and Firefox ran as a single process. When I upgraded to
> 2.4.26, firefox started showing up as multiple processes. And it's still doing
> the same now I'm using the 2.6 kernel on a different distro.
> 
> It's not causing any particular problems, but it HAS stopped me being able to
> use keyboard bindings to move back & forward a page, and it's making firefox
> look like a real resource hog. Especially when it's using java, since it fires
> up multiple instances of java as well...
> 
> Any idea why it's doing this, and how I can stop it?
> 
> Any advice appreciated
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Dominic
> 
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