Java applet text is still mangled when applets are run from netscape 4.6.1 that was installed with redhat 6.1. Applet text is completely unreadable. I followed the instructions given on the errata page (adding the scalable 75 point font using chkfontpath --add) but that did not remedy the situation. Even though the chkfontpath man page says that it restarts xfs I restarted it manually via /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart and that didn't help either. I'm not sitting at the machine right now, but if you need additional information please email questions to wkuhn.edu. Oh, one other thing that was weird about netscape is having to set the CLASSPATH. I don't recall having to do that in previous installations of netscape on linux. Is that something new? Thanks. -Bill
You shouldn't be setting CLASSPATH; it should just (more or less) work. Can you give an example of the corruption you're seeing?
What I was asking for was an example applet that caused the font corruption, so we could try and duplicate it here. Then again, if it's a netscape problem, the chances of getting it fixed aren't very good.
Hmm... works OK for me. What's the output of chkfontpath --list?
Put X11/fonts/75dpi as the fourth entry in /etc/X11/fs/config (i.e., after the three :unscaled entries.); does that solve the problem?
To change the ordering, it's probably easiest to edit /etc/X11/fs/config directly, and then do '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart'.
This shoud be fixed once the font path is moved; please re-open if it isn't.
Hi. I have followed all the instructions concerning about fonts. I tried to make the changes in Netscape versions 4.61 - 4.72, none of them were successful. If you want to try a "crash site", go to: http://www.turmadamonica.com.br/index.htm (wait 2 or 3 minutes and see what happens). Thank's
Works OK for me. Are you sure it's not a problem with the flash support (I'm not running that...)
Hi, I made the tests in 2 different computers. One of them have a multimedia system and another one doesn't. On the first computer I have installed many plugins, including flash but, on the second one, I have installed nothing. In both cases that site crashes! I have installed the rpm package from RedHat _and_ the tar.gz packet from Netscape (of course, when I installed one, I uninstalled the other) from the various Netscape versions. None of them were successful. It's really weird what is going on with Netscape. Anyway, thank you for your cooperation ;) Marcos