Introduction
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Mailing Lists and IRC
Alternative Browsers
Special Thanks
FAQ
Understanding Mnemonic
TODO list and ideas
Bug Reports
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Platforms
Compiling Mnemonic
Other useful software
Core
Message modules
Library modules
Object modules
Coding Guidelines
Browse Source
Using CVS
Website questions to:
webmaster@mnemonic.org
Mnemonic questions to:
disc@mnemonic.org
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Frequently Asked Questions
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If your question is not mentioned below, feel free to write
a message to disc@mnemonic.org.
- On what platforms/distributions does it run?
Do you plan to port it to other platforms?
- See the mnemonic on various platforms
page for more information.
- Does mnemonic have a `kiosk' mode (running without window borders, at
full screen size)?
- Yes, invoke mnemonic with the `--kiosk' command line option.
- I have read the documentation but structure of mnemonic is
still a mystery to me. What are the goals of the mnemonic project and
how do all those modules fit in?
- Have a look at `the big picture'.
More information will be added as work on the code progresses; if you
need an answer now feel free to contact the discussion list.
- Colors and/or fonts look bad.
- If you are using Mnemonic on a screen with only 8 bits per color (256 colors
in total) you may be running out of colormap entries. You can try the
`--install-cmap' option when starting Mnemonic, but this will lead to
colormap flicker when you move the mouse pointer to a different window.
There is a known problem with anti-aliased T1 fonts on 8-bit visuals, basically
due to the way GDK allocates its color cube. This will hopefully be fixed soon.
- Using anti-aliased T1 fonts is slow
- Try to run Mnemonic on the same machine as the X server;
T1 fonts require a lot of bandwidth between the client and the server.
In the future, T1 font handling may be done with more internal buffering
which will make rendering (and especially scrolling) faster. It is of
course never going to be as fast as plain X fonts, but then again those
are not suitable for high quality typesetting.
- Can I use mnemonic with a proxy?
- Yes, although only for HTTP at the moment. Set the
HTTP_PROXY
environment variable to the url of the proxy, eg.
setenv PROXY_HOST http://proxy.somewhere.net:8080
More proxy options will be added later, this is just intended as a temporary
solution.
- When do you plan to kick Internet Explorer and Netscape out of the place?
- Wrong question. This project does not intend to take over the world. We started
it because we wanted a better browser for ourselves. If no-one else uses it, that is
their problem.
- Will mnemonic have Java support (Sun JAVA plugin API, Netscape OpenJava interface)?
- Eventually, but not in the very near future.
- What about Netscape plug-in binary compatibility?
- There are very few Unix plug-ins for Netscape (for reasons known to
everyone who has tried to write one; see Netscape
plugin programming on X11). For new plug-ins, you are much better
off by writing a mnemonic oil. From a technical point of view, the plugin
API is very badly designed, so don't expect this to make it into mnemonic
unless the demand becomes very high.
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