K-Meleon Forum - Linux users

Wine and K-Meleon 1.5.4 (2 replies)

oui — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:29:53 +0000

Hi

I am now in K-Meleon 1.5.4 using Wine 1.1.43-i486 in Archpup-1204, a new mini (78 MB) live distro from the Puppy Linux family based in this case on Arch Linux stuff having no preinstalled browser.

Exceptionnaly, K-Meleon works really very well in Linux, the pages are good and fast. ebay works, the Puppy Linux forum works, this forum works etc.
youtube.com refuses this browser.
http://france2.fr/jt/20h doesn't work probably because no flashplayer.
I did download and install it with the Adobe installer. nothing to do.

What is the solution?

Kind regards

K-Meleon Twin+ and Linux (5 replies)

panzer — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:27:55 +0000

So, I have finally chosen what Distro to use and I want to know the following:

How to make new KM Twin (or some other version) work under Wine (I have never tried using Wine so I need step-by-step guide)
Can multiple software run under Wine simultaneously? I would need DarkScreen (only one .exe file) running along Km ...

An interesting search engine : Ubuntu Manpage (no replies)

JujuLand — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:30:07 +0000

Very interesting:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search.py?q=

Add it in K-Meleon, and hop ...

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Conkeror under Linux (no replies)

JujuLand — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:25:56 +0000

For Ubuntu before 11.04 version and other Linux builds, Conkeror uses xulrunner

For Ubuntu 11.04 and next versions, add the repositaty, and install it like this:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xtaran/conkeror
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conkeror conkeror-spawn-process-helper

Launch it :
conkeror

The first time it will try to use xulrunner, and finally uses firefox -app. After, no such tries, it will directly use firefox -app

To paste in a field, Ctrl-V doesn't work. Use Shift-Ins instead and it will paste correctly.

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K-Meleon Wine bugs updated (no replies)

JujuLand — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:43:09 +0000

I have updated the bug list.

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teletype tag isn't correctly displayed under Linux (6 replies)

JujuLand — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:50:58 +0000

As said in the title, teletype tagged strings aren't correctly displayed by all K-Meleon's versions ( 1.6.0b2 and 1.7.0a2) under Linux.

See for example on this page, step 2, step 3, ...

wouldn't be necessary to install a windows font ?

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Linux live distro for netbooks (21 replies)

Fred — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:34:55 +0000

Linux live distro for netbooks

Low-priced netbooks have often only 1 Gb of ram.
This makes them difficult to use with many
Linux distros from USB as live systems, working
in ram only, either because they are too big or
too old, when used with wireless LAN.
The new version of Peppermint Two could be a
working possibility.
It is based on the current Ubuntu 11.04, or
to be more precise, on Linux Mint 11 with the
Lubuntu desktop LXDE.
The size of the distro for 32 bit is only 442 MB.
The needed Office applications and other needed
programs can be installed easily as the case arises
using the Synaptic apps manager.
Besides that, the distro is optimally prepared
for cloud computing, if this is wanted, using
the Ice SSB application.

Download from here :

http://peppermintos.info/dl1/Peppermint-Two-i386-06052011.iso

and burn the iso to a CD. Do not simply copy it there,
but use the special menu entry command for burning
an iso file in your CD burning program.

Start the cd as a live distro in ram on your desktop computer.
When the desktop comes up, start Synaptic in the menu
System Tools and search for usb-creator.
Mark for installation:
usb-creator-common and usb-creator-gtk
and press Apply.
There will be a new menu entry "StartupDiskCreator"
in the menu System Tools.
Use it to create a bootable USB stick.
On small sticks there will one single partition be
created, on bigger sticks, a second partition for a
persistent home folder is possible.
Make sure that only one stick is in use, to avoid
erasing any unwanted files. Check also the size
of the stick.
The bootable stick with Peppermint should be
ready in only a couple of minutes.
It can then be used to start Linux in ram only
without harddisk installation on your netbook.
If it should only boot Windows, and show no
boot screen, the necessary F key, for example F12
(depending on the netbook brand) must be pressed
when booting.
If the boot menu does not show an entry for the
USB drive, this should be enabled changing the
boot menu, often by pressing F2, when booting
(depending on the netbook brand).

P.S.
For office purposes, Abiword and Gnumeric, which
are normally sized programs, are often sufficient.
If you really need the huge OpenOffice (now LibreOffice),
it is advisable downloading the install debs only
using Synaptic, and transfer them from the folder
/var/cache/apt/archives to a folder on a second USB stick,
to save ram space, and install them from there, writing
in the LX-terminal

sudo dpkg -i -R --force-depends /path-to-the-USB-folder

You can do that in a similar way for many other apps.

You can of course use K-Meleon as your browser after installing
wine with Synaptic. Simply copy it to tha USB stick and
add the necessary dll runtimes into the main K-Meleon folder.
For 1.5 versions these are mfc71u.dll, msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll .
For 1.6 versions download and install MSvce8dist.exe from

http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/

Install it with

wine /your-path-to/MSvce8dist.exe

Start K-Meleon with

wine /your-path-to-K-Meleon-folder/k-meleon.exe

(or sometimes K-Meleon.exe in some versions, because in
Linux capital letters are recognized as such).
This command can of course be added to the start menu.

Fred

K-Meleon 1.6 on Wine? or on Windows? (5 replies)

andreas122 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:10:51 +0000

what is the best method to install k-meleon to have max acceleretion on a very slow laptop with only 128mb ram for k-meleon 1.6.

1)on Windows 2000?

2) on a minimalist linux distibution like(tiny core) with xorg and the wifi drivers and the wine to run k-meleon?

and then? i have to install flash player to wine? and how i can do that? is the newest flash coMbatable with wine and k-meleon on Wine?

meaby i can work with native flash on linux to k-meleon on Wine?

Slax fork with new kernel (no replies)

Fred — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:57:43 +0000

As the Slax live distro has seen a stop in its
development, with kernel 2.6.27 in version 6.1.12 , and
is listed as "dormant" on the Distrowatch site, it
may be noteworthy for interested people, that a Slax fork
made by community members, with kernel 2.6.37, is
available now.
It's named Porteus (former Slax-Remix).

http://porteus.org
http://porteus.org/faq.html

The live distro can be used from a USB stick of from a CD
to work in RAM. Note that it is easy to add a non-root user.

Fred

Gnash 0.8.8 for Flash in Linux (no replies)

Fred — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:23:48 +0000

As Flash 10 has a critical, unfixed bug,
Gnash 0.8.8 can replace it in Linux for YouTube
and Googlevideo, while most other Flash
sites and news streaming in Flash do not work yet,
because their providers only accept Adobe Flash
for the moment.
Gnash 0.8.8 and "browser-gnash-plugin" for Mozilla
are already in the Debian sid repository.
For Ubuntu Lucid it is not yet available, but
the Debian sid main repository could be added.
The file libgnutls.so.13 would have to be
added manually from the Hardy repository, because
it is not in Lucid anymore. A downloaded
deb for it could be extracted with

dpkg-deb --extract file.deb /PathtoTemporaryDir

and the extracted lib file renamed to simple
libgnutls.so.13 before copying it to /usr/lib/ .
The file "libgnashplugin.so" would have to be copied
from /usr/lib/gnash to $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/
and "libflashplayer.so" moved temporarily to
another place, because else Adobe Flash would
always be preferred by the browser.
Check if the user rights for $HOME are still
the correct ones, if not, correct that.
The start of the first flash movie could
take a while, but then it should work correctly.
I have not yet tried this with other distros,
but basically it should be possible too for them
in a similar way, to test Gnash, which can be
an alternative for Linux browsers from now on,
as soon as all flash providers will accept that.
You should only try to test it, if you are
experienced and you know what you're doing,
in order not to ruin your system, or else test it
with a live cd.

Fred

Rolling releases based on Debian (1 reply)

Fred — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:50:34 +0000

A rolling release means a continuously developing software system,
while most Linux distros have versions, that will be
replaced by new versions regularly, mostly about twice a year.
Rolling releases based on the Debian repositories on
live CD or live DVD are

Aptosid, which replaced the former Sidux, which is using
Debian "Sid", look at

http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=aptosid

an upcoming new release has been announced:http://aptosid.com

and the new Linux Mint Debian, based on Debian "Testing", at

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=66

"Sid" and "Testing" are the branches of Debian containing
more recent software developments, which are not in the
so-called "Stable" branch of Debian yet. Debian is the
base of many other distros like Ubuntu or Mint.
Security updates in Debian are generally not made by
installing newer software versions, but by fixing the
bugs in the existing older versions.This does also
include browsers like iceweasel and iceape (renamed from
Firefox and Seamonkey) or iceape (Thunderbird).
Fixing the bugs of the older versions instead of using
new versions is supposed to increase the stability
of the Linux system.
May be worth to have a look at, if you want something
a bit different from the usual path.

Fred

pdfcreator linux equivalent (1 reply)

JujuLand — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:18:40 +0000

For gnome desktop (I don't know for kde or other desktop), there is an old tool which can be installed and is usable from Windows programs run under wine, I want to talk about: cups-pdf

Look for doc here (in french) or here (in english)

The only problem is that some images aren't saved in pdf for example, this page), but when needed, you can always, exceptionnaly, use Firefox, and the cups feature save in a file and in ps or pdf format.

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Flash 9 and 10 in Linux (10 replies)

Fred — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:28:53 +0000

Usually Flash 10 should work in most Linux distros.
Installing version 10.1.53.64 is now advisable.

Flashplayer 9 in Linux is only necessary for distros with libc version < 2.4 .

For flashplayer 9.0.277.0 for Linux here the download address,
because it's hard to find :

from the site : http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
download "Linux Flash Player 9 Plugin content debugger"
or the direct link :
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_plugin_debug.tar.gz

If Flashplayer 10 does not work, watch if liblcms.so.1 is present in
/usr/lib/ , if it is not you can add it.
It is for example in
liblcms1_1.18.dfsg-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
for Ubuntu and its derivatives, or in
liblcms1_1.17.dfsg-1+lenny2_i386.deb
for Debian.
If you should want liblcms.so.1 alone, you can unpack the .deb
using the program "alien" to make a tar.gz with the command
alien -tc FILE
and unpack then the tar.gz package.
For distros using .rpm packages,
look here :
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/liblcms.so.1
Alien would also unpack .rpm's.

Fred

Windows freeware for Linux with wine (4 replies)

Fred — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:56:48 +0000

Windows Freeware working well in Linux with wine :

Oxelon Converter
Format Factory Converter
Mp3QualityModifier
Foobar2000 player
RadioSure player/recorder
Aimp2 player
Winamp

ScreenRecorderGold
freez_screenvideocapture

FLVplayer
DVDdecrypter

IrfanView
ImageCropper
FastStoneCapture
Xnview

7-zip
FoxPDFreader
CCCalc writing calculator
QCalc spreadsheet
Spread32 spreadsheet
NFreader newsreader
FBreader bookreader
Speakonia voice reader
RDFticker newsticker
Unstoppable copier
Gul bookmarks
Proxomitron local proxy
Scite source editor

OB1 browser (no javascript, but fast)
and of course, a certain
K-Meleon.

and many others.
All of them good in Windows too.

Fred

Linux Comparison: K-Meleon vs Swiftfox (7 replies)

tlcmd — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:04:34 +0000

Has anyone compared K-meleon and Swiftfox on a Linux distro.
Currently I am "playing with" Linux Mint 8 'Helena' on my 320 G partitioned HDD.
The other partition is Windows XP SP2.
I'm getting tired of Windows' security problems: malware, adware, viruses, etc. Plus the increased cost of upgrading to Windows 7 will entail at least 2 new family computers due to the hardware requirements for this "new" Windows. Thus far Linux Mint is doing very nicely and is well on its way to becoming out main OS.

Specific Linux Problems occuring with K-Meleon 1.6.x and 1.7.x (no replies)

JujuLand — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:28:51 +0000

These problems are listed here, and for each, I give the way to remove it : Extension or wine version.

Remark : As I just rewrite the note today (03-march-2010), the wine version indicated is the current existing version at 05-march-2010. After, I'll give the real version

1) URL list crashes K-Meleon and/or gives an error message
=> wine 1.1.39

2) When the bookmarks toolbar is full, impossible to acces to the last bookmarks and/or folders
=> wine 1.1.39

3) Impossible to move a toolbar from a line to another.
=> Wine 1.3.36

4) mailto links aren't working
=> Mail4Tux extension

5) Sendto (url, page, and text) don't work
=> Mail4Tux extension

5) some wrong icons (bad transparency)
=> Wine 1.3.36

6) properties not displayed in Bookmark Editor, History editor, ...
=> unsolved (1.3.36)

8) Impossible to launch K-Meleon 1.7.x from a shortcut
=> Create a shell like this which locates into K-Meleon folder. Create then a shortcut of the shell and launch it.

#/bin/usr/bash
cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/K-Meleon"
wine ./k-meleon.exe %s

Small Linux distro (35 replies)

panzer — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:38:31 +0000

My sister can't use internet with Windows7. She need small Linux distro which I will burn her on cd.

If I understand correctly, you do not have to install it to use internet and download something (on USB)? She do not know English, so she needs something just to boot a live cd, open the browser and surf, basically ... Just a no brainer distro ...

What would you recommend - Puppy Linux or Damn small Linux or something else?

Bookmarks properties invisible in Bookmark Editor (5 replies)

JujuLand — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:26:53 +0000

Under wine, the bookmark properties are not displayed, but can be modified in bookmark editor for KM 1.53, 1.54 and S201. We work like a blind man.

Have you noticed it ? Probably a K-Meleon bug.

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Which packages make Wine under Ubunto 9.1 ? (14 replies)

JamesD — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:33:53 +0000

I am looking in the package manager for wine. I see the following items.

wine
wine 1.2
wine 1.2 dbg
wine 1.2 dev
wine 1.2 gecko
wine-dev
winefish
wine-gecko

How many of these items do I need to put a check by so that they will download and install? I just want to be able to try KM on my Linux box.

Off topic : Knoppix 6.2 DVD released (no replies)

Fred — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:53 +0000

After almost two years since the last DVD version 5.1
the live DVD Knoppix 6.2 has been released.
Version 6.1 was only available as an add-on to a
Linux magazine and could not be downloaded.
The Knoppix 6.2 DVD contains Gnome as well as KDE and
a great number of applications working with these
window managers. It is a show-case of Linux programs.
There is a script included to install the distro
on a USB stick of 4 or better more Gb.
There is also a Knoppix Live CD downloadable,
faster, but with fewer programs of course.
For more info go to distrowatch.com or to the English
branch of the Heise Forum, here :
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Knoppix-6-2-arrives-862612.html
or to the release announcement, here :
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix62-en.html .

There are also several other new distros, which follow
the half year release cycle downloadable now, as
Suse 11.2 , Fedora 12 , Ubuntu 9.10 Koala and its
derivatives Kubuntu and Xubuntu, Linux Mint 8 (RC),
Mandriva 2010, PC Linos 2009.2 , Mepis 8.0.12 ,
just to mention the biggest ones .
These distros come usually as Live CDs, and are installable,
if they become the first choice.
Download addresses at distrowatch.com .

Fred

Variations using 1.9.1.x (2 replies)

Fred — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:08:23 +0000

There are two unofficial variations available that I made
to use Gecko 1.9.1.x in Linux with the wine emulator,
K-Meleon-F354 based on Firefox and K-Meleon-SM2pre based
on the new Seamonkey.

Download K-Meleon-F354 here :

http://one.xthost.info/eichhein3/K-Meleon-F354.zip

Download K-MeleonSM2pre here :

http://two.xthost.info/eichhein4/K-Meleon-SM2pre.zip

Read the notes in the respective threads in Forum General.
Both variations are also usable in Windows.

Fred

K-Meleon 1.5.3 tests (2 replies)

JujuLand — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:09:41 +0000

As I was testing the non-unicode 1.53 version, since a long time without arriving to locate the bug which crashes K-Meleon, the wine developpers ask me some debug info to help debugging.

I asked to Dorian, and he send me some files, and I installed the unicode exe version to test it.

Incredible, this version seems not to crash anymore. My thoughts about the unicode problems were dated from 1.5.2 version, and I never test 1.5.3 unicode.

No crash when starting as 1.5.2, and it seems to be ok a long time. No crash since an hour about what was impossible with non-unicode version.

Another good new, the URL history gives no more error message and seems to work correctly.

I think it will be necessary to continue to test, but it a good new.

To test it, install 1.5.3 with setup for example, open then the setup with 7-zip and extract K-Meleon.exe (overwrite the non-unicode version, or rename it before), or instead of setup, use 7-Zip package.

Report here if it's ok for you.

I'm using wine 1.1.30 and Ubuntu 8.10

[edit]

Grrr... a crash just after the send of the post. It ought to be too nice ...

[/edit]
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K-Meleon for Linux unofficial variations (3 replies)

Fred — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:42:05 +0000

Welcome to all Linux users !

The links to my unofficial variations that I use
in Linux with wine can be found on the page for
unofficial variations, here:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/UKmeleon

In addition there is a recent variation based on
the latest Firefox 3.5.3, which can be downloaded
from here :

http://two.xthost.info/eichhein4/K-Meleon-F353.zip

Note that these variations are not native Linux
apps. They need the emulator wine installed in the
Linux distro, and some additional dlls, that are
mentioned in the variation notes. If you don't
have them, look for them in the Internet.

The official current version may also work for you,
sometimes some work-arounds will be necessary.
Don't expect that everything will work as in Windows,
but the necessary functions should work allright,
and the speed and versatility in Linux is better than of
some other browsers.

Regards and good luck for K-Meleon in Linux.

Fred

updated variation: K-Meleon-NX-18123 (2 replies)

Fred — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:53:07 +0000

I have uploaded a new updated unofficial no-Xul version :
K-Meleon-NX-18123 .
This is a simplified version of K-Meleon 1.x ,
usable in Linux together with wine , or also in Windows,
updated to Mozilla 1.8.1.24pre using Gecko/20090820,
from Seamonkey Nightly GRE.
Look and feel are similar to the earlier 0.9 versions.
The NX No-chrome concept is used here. Thanks to Hao Jiang and Dorian.
The browser is very fast, because Xul is not used.
Note :
This version works only if you have the files msvcp71.dll
and msvcr71.dll in your system or in your K-Meleon folder.
If you want to use Internet Explorer Favorites, mfc71.dll
would also be necessary (in Windows XP and Vista probably
all already in the system) .
If you need these dll's, look for them in the internet .
If necessary in Linux, copy the files manually to the K-Meleon main folder.
Compreg.dat and xpti.dat included to make it work in Vista.
Note : Flashblock, Aggreg8 and other extensions are not included in this
no-chrome version, and cannot be installed, because extensions need Xul.
Ad-blocking by userContent.css and hostperm.1 .
Many useful search engines have been added.
The profiles folder will be created inside the K-Meleon main folder by default.
If, when in Linux, you want this folder inside the wine configuration directory
because of property rights problems, rename the file profile.ini
inside the K-Meleon main folder to for example profile.ini-renamed
before the first start.
A javascript button has been included. After changing permissions
for javascript, reload the page.
History must be deleted manually.

Download as zip file at :

http://one.xthost.info/eichhein/K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip

Fred