[Sussex] Finally got Gentoo working :o)

[Stephen Williams]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 17:50 +0000, Stephen Williams wrote:
> 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

oops, this should read:

switch2

> 
> 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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