[CTWM] Fixing firefox's mouse offset bug in ctwm

Firefox under ctwm has a nasty bug: when in full-screen, the mouse position is a bit offset.

Clicking, marking text, etc., is a bit away from the actual cursor position.

One fix under ctwm is to disable window decorations for Firefox.

You will lose buttons like maximize, minimize, and close, but there is a great solution for this:

export MOZ_GTK_TITLEBAR_DECORATION=system

Dang... problem solved!!!
This happens because Firefox attempts to guess modern (crap) desktop environments, e.g., (Fisher-Price) GNOME or KDE (aka KBloat), and completely miscalculates the window geometry math when forced into a minimal X11 environment.

Even enabling USE_EWMH in your .ctwmrc doesn't always fix it.

The only minus is you wont have the same window decoration on firefox
but at least the most buttons and the border are there...

Happy browsing in ctwm!

[FreeBSD] Ouch ... ok lolz

I challenged my luck and tried FreeBSD again - for the xxth time, I can't really remember when was the last time.

Unfortunately, it failed to work well as a desktop on my system.

Especially disappointing was the lack of compatibility with my system, particularly the inability to resume from suspend to RAM. (Just for the record: OpenBSD* excels in this area!), last time I ve used it the sound was like sh*t... 

The software was in a similarly disappointing state, some packages frequent crashed (even obconf crashed, FFS). Interestingly, during the installation of various ports, I noticed that many of them lacked maintainers, so one day they may be removed. Oh well...  still a nice OS for servers.

 

* OpenBSD is really a champ.. >> VA-API (Video Acceleration API) imported into xenocara  , I am sure the day they implement gfx on vmm I will screw the linux partition once for all! (still need some apps that work with USB devices like oscilloscope..)

Update - 2 years later- ... same SHIT.. at least FreeBSD , firefox not even can be used for M$ Teams - the camera I mean , as 'chat or voice' is fine there (sort of 'advanced' IRC .. FFS !!!)

ALPINE is the fucking future...

BSD under AMD APUs

Looks like the BSD full support -eg incl accelator -for AMD GFX is stalled around the Northern Islands / Cayman (2010).

Well, looks like the development is a bit slow, so I am not expecting support for Kaveri (R5 / R7 GFX) before 2019....

In the meanwhile Dragonfly BSD works like a fucking charm with my A8-7600!! Full effin accelator, glxgears show an average of 4400 fps !! (about 4030fps average under Ubuntu Mate, about 4700fps under OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). Not only the darn thing works fantastic, not at all playing with the rc.conf, just the users need to be on video group.

cheers to Dragonfly BSD dev's , unfortunatelly it won't be my main BSD system, there is no support for ntfs-3g  (just read-only NTFS) as fuse (the Filesystem in Userspace not the ZX emulator) is missing from the packages and also I need encFS (fuse based) too, maybe next time.