Comments on: how I fixed my Firefox hiccups

By: Wicher

Wicher — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:42:26 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Marius!
I’ve made a 0.2 (repo) in which I added some setup documentation so people don’t have to browse the topic in the Gentoo forums for clues.
And I added xmessage as a fallback for those who do not have gxmessage installed. And there was a bug in 0.1 caused by a typo in a variable (that’s what you get for programming in Bash).

By: Marius

Marius — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:28:03 +0000

yes, tar and inotify was the easy part, but gears did not want to fit into tmpfs mount of 128M ;-)

btw, script also relies that the tar archive is there from the begining — this is not the case for the first time. The script would be more robust if it checked that instead of seppuku :)

By: Wicher

Wicher — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:07:49 +0000

Thanks for the tip on gxmessage, I’ll add that (soonish).
You might consider to exclude your gears directory with tar’s and inotify’s exclude options. Or maybe you’ve already done so ;-)

By: marius

marius — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:09 +0000

argh, fixed gears moving it and putting back a symbolic link to its new location.

no hiccups anymore, yay!!!
thanks

By: marius

marius — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:17:32 +0000

thanks for the script.
here are a few problems I ran into:
gxmessage needs to be installed (it is not installed by default on Debian).
The title of the message could be set, like:
gxmessage -nofocus -title “$(basename ${0})” -center “${1}”

then I have huge (450M) google gears directory inside my profile.. this is my gmail for offline usage, and I cannot divert that path :(