[plug] Netscape behaviour?

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Peter Robinson wrote:

> only run Netscape when I have my ppp link up, if I don't have it up and
> run it it runs alright until I click on something, it then locks up and

It is probably doing a DNS lookup. Try renaming /etc/resolv.conf.
( To find out, use tcpdump or strace. )

> sometimes even takes X with it. The only solution is to drop to a console
> and kill X. It did this with 4.51 as well.

Is this when it grabs the cursor, with a menu up,  and wont let you select
another window? If so, you should be able to ctrl-alt-Fn to console, and
kill Netscape. With fvwm2, I need to then alt-tab to get the focus back to 
normal windows. Other WMs may differ, but experiment.

does that help?

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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