In order to run several Firefox-es with individual profiles simultaneously, the browser should be started with –no-remote option:

firefox -P prof-01  --no-remote&

firefox -P prof-02  --no-remote&

… etc

where prof-01, prof-02 are profile names

SunRay OSD Messages. Taken from the documentation here.

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Probably your mc is compiled by Blastwave (CSW) and you are running Solaris 11. Try to download it from Ibiblio  and compile it by yourself.

Recommended configure settings:

 ./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-charset --with-samba

UTF8 is still not supported, though.

Internet/Intranet Input Method (IIIM) is a distributed Input Method solution that provides Input support for Java & X11 clients via Internet/Intranet. The related documentation can be found here.

When I upgraded from snv_83a to snv_85 I lost the ability to switch layouts. This is what I discovered:

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If you see something like:

instead of normal ASCII text, run the following command (blindly)

tput sgr

See Part I

Beginning with wine 0.9.57 “-lsunmath” is needed. You can get the libsunmath library from blastwave, for example:

LIBS      = -lsocket -lnsl -lintl -L/opt/csw/lib -lsunmath

This is the error you might get if the library is not specified in dlls/wined3d/Makefile:

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• Explorer < 7.0 does not understand CSS “position: fixed” - Use Firefox! ;-)
• It’s a scratch pad after all!
• will fix it sooner or later when I have time ;-)

Since upgrading to s11b83a I noticed that gam_server processes eat significant amount of CPU cycles. So I decided to make some investigations.

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## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration
commands to become available (another user is administering
packages on zone <XXX>)

• Remove /tmp/.ai.pkg.zone.lock-* from all zones
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.lockfile
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.pkg.lock (<- not sure about this one)

Unfortunately, wine can not be compiled under Solaris “as is”. Some tricks are needed.
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