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Frequently Asked Questions

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.