gord
March 7th, 2006, 01:14 AM
hi :)
This is a little howto on installing the mozilla Chatzilla IRC client via XULrunner, thus allowing it to run 'standalone'. perfect for those of you that what a prittyer irc client or are just bored with what you have now.
first you should note that XULRunner is still in its development phase so it might not work perfectly (allthough i have encountered no problems).
first of all, we need to get ourselfs a copy of XULRunner, which is the base on which Chatzilla runs. its a good 8mb or so, so give it a few mins.
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8.0/xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /opt -xzvf xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
rm xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner
next we need to get a version of chatzilla designed to run with XULRunner. this code gets files that might not be around forever, so if you encounter errors you can get the latest from here (http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/)
wget http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/download/chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
sudo mkdir /opt/xulrunner/chatzilla
sudo unzip -d "/opt/xulrunner/chatzilla" chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
rm chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
and thats about it :) to run chatzilla you will need to do
xulrunner --app "/opt/xulrunner/chatzilla/application.ini"
so i suggest creating a launcher in the gnome menu's or desktop.
you can find more 'motif's to change the look of chatzilla here (http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/motifs.html), or just create your own :)
screenys:
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3914/screenshotdark3id.th.png (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotdark3id.png) http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/4787/screenshotlight1hi.th.png (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotlight1hi.png)
This is a little howto on installing the mozilla Chatzilla IRC client via XULrunner, thus allowing it to run 'standalone'. perfect for those of you that what a prittyer irc client or are just bored with what you have now.
first you should note that XULRunner is still in its development phase so it might not work perfectly (allthough i have encountered no problems).
first of all, we need to get ourselfs a copy of XULRunner, which is the base on which Chatzilla runs. its a good 8mb or so, so give it a few mins.
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8.0/xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /opt -xzvf xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
rm xulrunner-1.8.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner
next we need to get a version of chatzilla designed to run with XULRunner. this code gets files that might not be around forever, so if you encounter errors you can get the latest from here (http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/)
wget http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/download/chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
sudo mkdir /opt/xulrunner/chatzilla
sudo unzip -d "/opt/xulrunner/chatzilla" chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
rm chatzilla-0.9.72-xr.zip
and thats about it :) to run chatzilla you will need to do
xulrunner --app "/opt/xulrunner/chatzilla/application.ini"
so i suggest creating a launcher in the gnome menu's or desktop.
you can find more 'motif's to change the look of chatzilla here (http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/motifs.html), or just create your own :)
screenys:
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3914/screenshotdark3id.th.png (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotdark3id.png) http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/4787/screenshotlight1hi.th.png (http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotlight1hi.png)