chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 (edited) I got my desktop looking pretty ok in gnome, but auh man the firebird scroll bars look atrocious, and the save file dialoge even worse.... I have firebird installed in my /home/ directory.... I never bothered to properly install it because I wasnt sure how. I read in the firebird forum that youre supposed to put it in the /usr/ dir? I dunno... any ideas? Edited December 7, 2003 by chin808 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 you need a gtk2 firebird. Where? I d/k but I'm sure someone does if it exist. Or you need to use a gtk2 theme that has a gtk1.2 theme to go along with it. 6nome doesn't. You can also set the gtk1.2 theme in ~/.gtkrc. Galeon and Epiphany use gtk2. -Galeon has many more features but is slightly slower and is what I use. -Epiphany is the fastest brower I've ever used but very low on features like horrible Bookmarks, which is why I stopped using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 U rawk brother I was reading on the galeon page about compatibliity- it says: "To install galeon you will need Gnome and Mozilla. The current version of Galeon has been tested with Gnome 1.4 and Mozilla 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, and 1.3a/b. Other versions most likely will not work. NOTE: The 1.2.6 rpm's work only with Mozilla 1.1, and 1.3.x requires at least Mozilla 1.3a." I was deterred by this because Im using gnome 2.4 and I have never used mozilla, just firebird which I installed when I was using kde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 bvc- you have been my savior lately... God bless you for unselfishly bestowing knowlege upon this humble n00b! I got the GTK Firebird and moved the new folder into my /usr/local/ dir. Now I have a nice smooth firebird and even the font matches now!!! Im so excited!!! Everything is coming together nicely EXCELLENT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 You're welcom!!! now.... to further tweak gnome if you should so find it necessary.......install gconf-editor. May already be installed and you'll find it in the Advanced section of the gnome control center. Or, in a terminal gconf-editor It's sorta like a windows registry for gnome and when implemented was meant to someday replace the control center. I d/k if it still is or not. Be Careful in there! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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