World: r3wp

Oh boy, didn't mean to do that. Looks like AltME in VMWare on CentOS 
had some initial weirdness as well. Sorry about that!

If you click on the send button N times, it will submit the message 
N times. Not a great feature.

Yeah, I hit enter and nothing happened, so I thought it was stuck. 
Looks like it was just busy doing something in the background and 
queueing up my enters.

I prefer enabling the little pencil. That moves sending to Ctrl-S 
and allows you to enter multiple lines of text.

About your font problem: It's been a while, but do you have the correct 
fonts installed? I'm not sure which ones are needed.

This is a stock CentOS 5.4 install running GNOME. Not sure which 
fonts are needed. However, things like h1, h2 in vid do change the 
font size of the text, but using font-size with say the text command 
does nothing.

Same simple script on Windows works just fine.

do the fonts look pixellated when using large fonts?

Yes.

ok, some fonts are missing, then. I think you need to install the 
default X11 fonts for it to work.

If it doesn't work, then I have no solution.

I have X11 fonts installed (I think):  xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5, 
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5, etc..

ok

it may help if you switch to a particular font. the X11 fonts are 
bitmapped fonts AFAIK and if there are no fonts in between in a particular 
size, it will look bad.

For example, using font-name?

Any way to see within REBOL which fonts it does see?

if you look at face/font, you can see the specs for the font

I'm not sure. It makes a distinction between sans, serif and mono 
fonts, but beyond that it uses some built-in default names, if the 
font requested, can't be found.

Interesting. On Windows I get Arial by the default, in Linux it looks 
like it picked Helvetica.

Where is the default specified and how is it obtained?

I don't know, but:

? font

and:

source set-font

look a little interesting

? face/font

IIRC, 'face is a generic face used for creating the others in VID

It's set in this snippet of code in %gfx-object.r

set [font-serif font-sans-serif font-fixed] any [
	select [
		1 ["CGTimes" "CGTriumvirate" "LetterGothic"]
		2 ["times" "arial" "courier new"]
		3 ["times" "arial" "courier new"]
		5 ["baskerville" "zurich" "courier10 bt"]
	] system/version/4
	["times" "helvetica" "courier"]
]

Use this to determine which [scaleable] fonts are available:

			fonts: copy []
			call/output "fc-list" s: copy ""
			s: parse/all s ":^/"
			foreach [fn style] s [
				all [
					not find fonts fn

     (size-text make face [text: "A" font: make font [name: fn size: 10]]) 
     <>

     size-text make face [text: "A" font: make font [name: fn size: 12 
     style: 'bold]]
					insert tail fonts fn
				]
			]

How does the 'browse' command in REBOL now which browser to open 
a URL in? I can't seem to get it to open any browser at the moment.

know

Windows or Linux?

Oh ... you have to define which browser for Linux

Yes, in Linux. How do you define the browser?

Barik: replace browse with
browse: func [
    "Open web browser to a URL or local file"
    url [url! file!]
] [
    if file? url [url: to-local-file url]
    call join "xdg-open " probe url
]

Ahem, maybe even without the probe :):
---
browse: func [
    "Open web browser to a URL or local file"
    url [url! file!]
] [
    if file? url [url: to-local-file url]
    call join "xdg-open " url
]
---

I see. So basically override the native browse function with something 
else.

I don't remember when, but the SET-BROWSER-PATH function was removed 
at some point.

i think that BROWSE is calling "netscape" or something like that... 
so it's also possible to create a shell script with that name.

R3's BROWSE is currently calling "open" on Linux, as far as I know. 
It should probably call "xdg-open", until then, symlinking xdg-open 
to e.g. /usr/local/bin/open should also do as a workaround.

wasn't "SET-BROWSER-PATH function was removed at some point." that 
to stop non pro users accessing call functionality?  And if so, it 
should now be reinstated.

I think that's also about the only reason why BROWSE is a native 
at all. With CALL generally available, I think BROWSE should really 
be a mezz.

I can't seem to make user.r or rebol.r execute on startup on Linux

There's some kind of REBOLHOME environment variable that you need 
to set to the directory containing those files, iirc. Don't remember 
the exact spelling, it might be REBOL-HOME or something.

It would only execute on startup of /Core, /View, /Command or /Command/View 
though, not /Base, /Pro or /Face.

This is all R2 of course.

I don't have any environment variable set, and my user.r is running 
fine in ~/.rebol/view/user.r (for View 2.7.6)

Guess I don't recall correctly :(

Wait, that is the HOME directory. That is a fallback that is checked 
after looking for REBOL-HOME.

And the last fallback is the current directory (on Windows, someone 
should test this on Linux). Not very secure.

It seems env. variables can't have - on linux? I tried REBOLHOME 
and REBOL_HOME without lucj so far

Unfortunately R2 only does the search for %rebol.r and %user.r once, 
not once each. This means that you can't have a %rebol.r in REBOL-HOME 
and a %user.r in HOME, so it's not very secure or multi-user friendly. 
Fixed in R3 though: %rebol.r is only loaded from the same directory 
as the executable, nowhere else, no environment variables necessary.

Apparently it's supposed to be spelled REBOL_HOME, and it needs to 
be a full path.

I can't get anything to run today as it is supposed to :/