| chimera | ||
| common | ||
| debian | ||
| doc | ||
| ext | ||
| html | ||
| image | ||
| mxw | ||
| plain | ||
| port | ||
| proto | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| CHANGES | ||
| Common.tmpl | ||
| Common.tmpl.dist | ||
| Imakefile | ||
| README.md | ||
| README.old | ||
Chimera2
Chimera2 is a very lightweight web browser for X11/Athena. This source is derived from the final development snapshot of Chimera 2.0p19, as well as well as the Debian patches that continued until 2013, both of which can be gotten from Debian jessie's package
Building
Debian lists the following packages as required for building:
- libjpeg-dev
- libpng-dev
- xutils-dev
- zlib1g-dev
- libxaw7-dev
- libxmu-dev
- libxt-dev
- libsm-dev
- libice-dev
- libxpm-dev
- libxext-dev
- libx11-dev
The build system is rather archaic, and is tuned by modifying Common.tmpl
and Imakefile. Once you're fine with your modifications (or just want to
use the shipped defaults), run
xmkmf -a &&
make
This should give you a binary at chimera/chimera, which appears to be
fully self-contained.
To clean up the source tree fully, use
make myclean
Unlike clean and distclean, this also removes the generated Makefiles.
Run-time configuration
Chimera2 uses an x11-style resources file at ~/.chimera/resources, and will
not start up unless you define at least html.defaultFont in there. The
following is a full list of resources that Chimera2 appears to use and
examples of values or ??? in case the usage is unclear and it is not set
anywhere in the code.
convert.convertFiles: ~/.chimera_convert:~john/lib/convert:/local/infosys/lib/convert
html.defaultFont: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
html.propFontPattern: -*-lucida-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
html.fixedFontPattern: -*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
html.leftMargin: 20
html.rightMargin: 20
html.bottomMargin: 20
html.topMargin: 20
html.printHTMLErrors: false
html.textLineSpace: 3
html.tableCellInfinity: 0
html.inlineTimeOut: 5000
html.selectTimeOut: 1000
html.flowDebug: false
html.constraintDebug: false
html.printTags: false
html.cssFile: ~/.chimera/default.css
html.dlIndent: 20
plain.font: -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-17-120-100-100-p-96-iso10646-1
chimera.helpURL: ???
chimera.homeURL: http://example.org
chimera.maxDownloads: 4
chimera.printLoadMessages: false
chimera.printTaskInfo: false
chimera.urlLogFile: ~/debug/chimeraurls.log
cache.directory: ~/.chimera/cache
cache.persist: false
cache.ignoreExpires: false
cache.maxSize: 0
cache.ttl: 0
view.path: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
view.capFiles: ~/.chimera/mailcap:~/.mailcap
bookmark.filename: ~/.chimera/bookmarks.html
bookmark.header: <html><body><h2>Bookmarks</h2><ul>
bookmark.footer: </ul></body></html>
file.autoLoad: index.html
http.userAgent: Chimera/2.0alpha
http.acceptLanguage: fi;q=1,en;q=0.9
ftp.dirheader: <html><body><h2>FTP Directory</h2><ul>
ftp.dirtrailer: </ul></body></html>
mailto.dirheader: <html><body><h2>Mailto</h2><ul>
mailto.dirtrailer: </body></html>
user.email: foobar@example.org
mailto.mailer: /usr/bin/sendmail -t
You'll most likely want to use a simpler configuration than this. A usable
default .chimera/resources is
html.defaultFont: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
chimera.homeURL: http://example.org
bookmark.filename: ~/.chimera/bookmarks.html
Known bugs
- Saving pages will often segfault, even when loading them would work.
- http:// links that redirect to HTTPS hang with "0 bytes read so far."
- If current URL has query parameters containing a slash, relative links are mishandled.
- Some problem with displaying images on 68k.news and Frogfind: investigate further
- Use-after-free when navigating away from a webpage