World: r3wp

Maybe I should write Winbox in View :-)

I am not offended, I'm just sad that everytime I say something simple 
it gets interpreted as something big and complex that would hurt 
people...

Ouch, that would be bad :(

I am not offended, I'm just sad that everytime I say something simple 
it gets interpreted as something big and complex that would hurt 
people...

... :)

Yes everyone is growly and feeling unappreciated for their work ... 
the beta can't be too far off.

What would be the right place (diretory) to put rebol executable 
under linux debian?

Seems like /usr/bin

Can I create and use own icon for binary application on linux so 
it will be included when I distribute such an app as an archive?

hi, do you have a solution for the BROWSE problem on linux ?

a work around is to use CALL like this "call [firefox "http://www.rebol.com"]

but i don't like it !!!!!

up - i would like an another solution for BROWSE in linux - please 
;-)

Claude, I have a similar solution, I redefine browse in user.r
browse: funct [ url ] [ call reform [ "x-www-browser" url ]]
So you can do
browse http;//www.rebol.com

But docs, and bugs don´t work ( you can redefine them too If you 
want ), but I think you don't like this solution.

thanks for your redefine solution. perhaps carl could do something 
about this problem

ManuM; I have
browse: func [url] [call rejoin ["opera -backgroundtab " url]

and that seems to work great with bugs and docs.  Debian with A87 
... Although this version hangs the console until Opera exit if Opera 
isn't already running ...

Thank you Brian. 

Now seems tha "bugs" and "docs" are working with my own definition. 
I'm not sure when I saw they failling, may be an old version, I don't 
know.
I have the same issue wiht Opera hangs.

Hi, any idea how to get the Word Browser from Rebol -> Tools to work 
on Linux? I get an error after I click a category and then a word:
** User Error: Bad face in screen pane!
** Near: show main
This is using Rebol/View 2.7.6.4.2 on Arch Linux.

sounds like a font problem

Thanks for trying to help :) With font problem, do you mean something 
like a missing font? I got these installed: ttf-ms-fonts, ttf-dejavu, 
ttf-bitstream-vera, xorg-fonts-100dpi, xorg-fonts-75dpi, and xorg-fonts-misc. 
Any idea what kind of font would be missing for the Word Browser?

try:

	help font-
	view layout [text "test" font-fixed]
	view layout [text "test" font-sans-serif]
	view layout [text "test" font-serif]

Thanks, I tried it. No problems with any of those three, everything 
was displayed correctly and no errors in the console.

Try same, but with bold and underline (e.g.view layout [text "test" 
font-fixed bold underline])

No problems there either.

Tried italic too, just to make sure.

Probably not a font issue then. Works fine here on OSX so sounds 
like a Linux specific error. Does RebGUI work? (REBOL/Demos group)

Yeah works on OS X for me too, got that on my laptop. RebGUI seems 
to work fine, went through a few of the tabs, nothing crashed.

Let's see if anyone else on Linux has the same issue, otherwise a 
feedback is in order. Good find.

Yeah hopefully I can get this fixed somehow. I don't use the laptop 
that often and it would be nice to have the Word Browser for reference 
here on my desktop while learning REBOL, but the website is okay 
too. Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

What do you call the "Word brother" ???

*Browser

ok, got it

browse !!! ?

This: http://www.rebol.com/view/tools/word-browser.r

Budzinski: No problem here with word-browser when I select a category 
and then a word. Works fine on Kubuntu 9.04 and Rebol/View 2.7.6.4.2.

Try to reload again the script with right button and then reload 
over the Word Browser Icon

ManuM, thanks for the tip. I tried it but it's still the same.

Normally it's a problem right at startup of View and it's fixed by 
installing the X11 fixed size bitmap fonts, but you seem to have 
those already. Are there any other bitmap fonts packages that you 
can install?

Kaj, here are all the available packages with "font" in the name: 
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=i686&repo=&q=font&last_update=&limit=all

Anything that sounds like it could be the right one? And thanks for 
trying to help.

Hmm AltMe cut off the message, but the link still works, just click 
on it, don't copy and paste (it's displayed incorrectly). Does any 
package there sounds like it could be the one I need? And thanks 
for trying to help.

Yeah, View has no rich text, and AltME screws up the hotlink overlays

You could try xorg-fonts-alias, in case a font is installed but not 
found because the name doesn't match

I don't see much else you could try. Maybe the ttf-ms-fonts, because 
it has popular font names, but that would be a new case of the problem

I remember trying the Biggelow Holmes fonts on Zenwalk, so you could 
try font-bh-ttf, but I don't remember if those were the ones to fix 
it

Those font packages all have different names on different Linux distros 
- one facet of the disaster

No change. I tried to install a few more font packages but those 
didn't help either. But thanks for your help, it was worth a try 
:)

Anyone has any recommandations how to setup linux for top security 
.. I have closed all ports except http https while ssh is limited 
to my static IP address. I have intergrity detection (tripwire that 
runs once per day and reports me all the changed files). Doc recommended 
Snort .. does using snort make sense in such setup where only those 
2 / 3 ports are open? I suspect snort detects attacks at realtime. 
I want some realtime thing also because once per day for detecting 
attacks is basically much much too late.

Budzinski: usually it's the bitmap fonts, but you had those installed 
already, so maybe it's not a font problem. "Bad face in screen pane" 
could also be the script trying to open a window with negative or 
zero size, or things like that. Maybe a negative offset could cause 
that error as well.

Gabriele, wouldn't an error in the script mean that the Word Browser 
shouldn't work at all? It does work fine on Windows and Mac OS X 
and from what ManuM said, it works on Kubuntu Linux too. But thanks 
for your input on this :) Maybe REBOL is incompatible with a newer 
version of a package. Arch Linux is a rolling release distro (daily 
updates compared to Ubuntu where you get updates every 6 months in 
form of a new distribution release). If it's that, then this problem 
will pop up for other Linux users in a few months too, when their 
distributions update to use newer packages.

I'll try to ask in the Arch Linux forum about this tomorrow. There 
probably won't be anyone using REBOL there but maybe a few people 
are willing to try this out. I'm far from being a Linux guru, if 
someone with more experience would try the Word Browser on his Arch 
Linux system, the possibility of a configuration error on my part 
could be ruled out.

You could have a look in the script to see what it's doing at that 
point

Yeah I started looking at the code. It's a bit hard to debug for 
me though. The error doesn't give any line number, it just says "near 
show main". I searched for "show main" and found three occurances 
in the source. I'm completely new to REBOL so going through everything 
in the code would take me quite some time without being able to narrow 
it down first because everything looks alien to me and I have to 
look it up to see if something in the script looks wrong. Is there 
some good tutorial available on debugging REBOL code? Or is there 
some trick to find out the last line that was executed? I do have 
access to the terminal at that point, the view is frozen but the 
terminal still accepts commands.