Grr... Flock and Firefox

Chris veritastic at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 06:56:51 UTC 2006


Actually, it finally started working about 30 min ago... I did what you said
(twice) then restarted with ctrl-alt-backspace and it worked... even flash.

I just didn't want to further harass the mailing list with my problems. :)

Thanks again!

On 11/7/06, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/06, Chris <veritastic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alright, so I followed Eamonn's advice and did:
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> > And it seemed to work for a bit, flock stayed open. But then I went to
> open
> > this email account (my other gmail account was fine) and flock closed.
> Then
> > I tried again with the same results, and tried with firefox with the
> same
> > results.
> >
> > Please help me! I dont want to work on Windows anymore for my internet
> > needs!
>
> Ah, well, it was worth a try. The "BadMatch" error in firefox after
> upgrading to Edgy seems to be common. Simply reconfiguring X worked
> for me, but others are reporting that they need to change a setting in
> firefox. There's a bug report on it, here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/14911
>
> Try this in a terminal, to add the XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS to your
> firefox settings:
>
> echo export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 | sudo tee -a /etc/firefox/firefoxrc
>
> -Eamonn
>
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