[OT] xombrero (was: Re: Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel)

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 11:57:51 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 18:13:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:11:14AM +0200, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 03:47:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:06:01AM +0200, Ramon wrote:
>> >>On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 23:59:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> >>wrote:
>> >>>Or rather, I *will* be happy as can be once I find a 
>> >>>suitable
>> >>>replacement for a browser. Browsers are by far the most
>> >>>ridiculously resource-consuming beasts ever, given that all 
>> >>>they do
>> >>>is to display some text and graphics and let you click on 
>> >>>stuff.
>> >>>
>> >>>T
>> >>
>> >>Pretty much describes my feelings too, although I've made my 
>> >>peace
>> >>with them beasts and like to use xombrero. Although webkit 
>> >>based
>> >>(translate: bloat) it's relatively(!) modest and is keyboard
>> >>controllable.
>> >
>> >I'm installing it right now. Let's see if it lives up to its 
>> >promise.
>> >;-)
> [...]
>> I've been testing xombrero for a few days now and I really 
>> like it.
>> It's fast and it's up to most of the ordinary web browsing 
>> tasks.
>> Thanks for the tip. It crashed once, though, when trying to 
>> open a
>> PDF file. Apart from that, it's a good UI for just browsing.
>
> Hmm. I built xombrero from git, and it seems to be unable to 
> connect to
> anything. There are no error messages, no nothing -- it just 
> displays
> the loading icon animation and sits there looking cute but doing
> absolutely nothing. AFAICT, it didn't even send any packets out 
> to the
> network. What gives? Am I missing some library, or did I screw 
> up some
> configuration...?
>
>
> T

Not sure what you might be lacking to make it work. I built from 
git and it just worked. What does ldd show for the executable?


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