Re: Netscape and 2.1.9x and 8x

Fred Love (flove@mindspring.com)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 00:04:06 -0400


Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> On 4 Apr 1998, Hans-Christoph Rohland wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got rid of netscape stalls by using display ':0' instead of my
> > default 'hostname:0'. It uses now unix domain sockets instead of tcp
> > for communicating with the X-server. I have send tcpdump of the stalls
> > to davem.
>
> Thanks for the tip! You're absolutely correct. When I start my display
> with a connection over the unix domain socket, it's back to normal. I
> really hope this bug gets swatted quickly.
>
> I've noticed its effect on many other large graphic applications, such as
> ghostview, xdvi, acroread, etc.
>
> Steve

Implemented this, and it re-appeared, thought it was gone.

/usr/local/netscape/netscape -display :0

is the command I run in X.

Later, Fred

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