Steve Kleene:
>
> 4. Keyboard shortcuts die if I pass the cursor over certain ads (especially
> at nytimes.com); I think they're javascript. To get the shortcuts back, I
> can move the cursor out of the iceweasel window and the bring it back,
> taking care not to pass over the offending ad. I use the keyboard to
> scroll (down arrow) and move back a page (ALT-leftarrow).
This is caused by flash content and other things that are handled by a
plugin and it also affects scrolling using the mouse wheel. Very
annoying, yes.
> By the way, the profile folder name ("aqhypo0m.default") appears to be some
> sort of unique identifier. Is it broadcast, and can it be used to identify
> my machine? Why is such a goofy directory name used at all?
It is not broadcasted and I think it is some sort of quirky security
measure. The intention is to make the profile folder's name hard or
impossible to guess.
J.
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02-08-2008, 10:43 PM
Chris Bannister
Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
> 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a
> specified position on my desktop (fvwm). I posted a question about this
> here once.
That would be an fvwm issue, not a Debian one. Search the fvwm mailing
list/google for transient window placement.
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02-09-2008, 12:00 AM
Steve Kleene
Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, I wrote:
> 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a
> specified position on my desktop (fvwm). I posted a question about this
> here once.
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:43:08 +1300 Chris Bannister replied:
> That would be an fvwm issue, not a Debian one. Search the fvwm mailing
> list/google for transient window placement.
Thanks; that might be worth a shot.
In the past, though, I remember that I could get Netscape to come up at a
site defined in ~/.Xresources (with Red Hat and fvwm). That did not work
with mozilla, so I had concluded it was a problem with mozilla. But I
haven't reinvestigated in awhile.
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02-09-2008, 12:32 AM
John
Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
On (09/02/08 12:43), Chris Bannister wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote:
| > 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a
| > specified position on my desktop (fvwm). I posted a question about this
| > here once.
|
| That would be an fvwm issue, not a Debian one. Search the fvwm mailing
| list/google for transient window placement.
If you want fvwm to open something at a definite location, specify the
location in ~/.fvwm2rc. Here's the extract from mine; it opens a
small window next to the pager at the bottom right of my screen in
which is shown what goes on in syslog. Concentrate on the four numbers.
# -geometry [<width>x<height>][{+|-}<x offset>{+|-}<y offset>]
# that is to say, the four numbers specify size and location: ewxns+EW+NS
+ "I" Exec Eterm -x --bold-font fixed --no-cursor -g 57x5+947+974 --scrollbar 0 --buttonbar 0 -e sudo grc tail -n 16 -f /var/log/syslog &
(All of that should be on one line, of course.)
You may just have to fiddle around to adapt size and location to your
screen, of course.
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, I wrote:
> 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a
> specified position on my desktop (fvwm).
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:32:16 -0500, JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com replied:
> If you want fvwm to open something at a definite location, specify the
> location in ~/.fvwm2rc. Here's the extract from mine
> ...
> + "I" Exec Eterm -x --bold-font fixed --no-cursor -g 57x5+947+974 --scrollbar 0
> --buttonbar 0 -e sudo grc tail -n 16 -f /var/log/syslog &
I do this in .fvwm2rc for various xterms. I believe this depends on the fact
that xterm and Eterm honor their geometry arguments from a command line. In
my experience, though, firefox (iceweasel) does not. Where the window comes
up, and what size it is, has no relation to any "-g" or "-geometry" arguments
I try. Neither its man page nor "firefox --help" indicates such an argument.
It's odd that giving it such an argument has no effect but also gives no
error message.
Firefox does claim to accept "-height" and "-width" but again, I actually get
800x980 no matter what arguments I give. And even those wouldn't allow
specification of window placement.
With old Netscape, having this in ~/.Xresources
Netscape.Navigator.geometry: 800x977+773+87
and calling xrdb worked. But it does not with firefox.
I brought this up as a question in a thread "size and position of iceweasel
window" last year. There seemed to be general agreement that firefox ignores
geometry requests.
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