From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: How to make current icecat less crashy Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 19:33:14 +0000 Message-ID: <87ins1sow5.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <8737j86nev.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20161105190142.GA11847@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c36iU-0001V7-PN for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:33:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c36iR-0000vl-N3 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:33:26 -0400 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:54668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c36iR-0000qU-H3 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:33:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161105190142.GA11847@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 5 Nov 2016 15:01:42 -0400") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:31:36PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. >> in Guix master. Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have >> fixed the problem here: >> >> go to about:config >> find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and >> gfx.content.azure.backends >> for both change “cairo” to “skia” >> note that for me this results in less readable fonts > > Can we set this option while building? No, but we can modify/substitute the config icecat uses, and set it there see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/mozconfig-v6.49.eclass and search for "skia". Or, I haven't looked at it too closely, it can be passed to the configure script.