I've been pottering about reading Advogato for a little
while now, thinking I really ought to get around to signing
up. I was finally moved to do so just now because I know
the answer to Zack's
question in his diary:
P.S.: Does anyone know how to get rid of the damn splash
screen and go straight to the start page?
But if only I kept better records... it took 20 minutes to
dredge the answer out of my hard drive.
I thought it was a setting in the .netscape/preferences.js
file, which says "DO NOT EDIT" at the top but I remember
having to edit several things in it. But nothing seemed
relevant,
and five minutes of randomly setting the more bizarrely
named
option
strings didn't perceptibly change anything.
Then I tried netscape's X app-defaults. I vaguely
remembered having tweaked those too. This would have been
easy to track down, except that I'm not an X programmer and
I don't know where app-defaults files live. Searching the
entire file system showed that I couldn't find any netscape
app-defaults file because it didn't have one.
There was one off in some documentation directory, but that
couldn't be it, could it?
! Uncomment the following line to bypass the startup licence
page.
!
! Equivalent to using the '-no-about-splash' startup
flag.
!
!*noAboutSplash: True
I was sure I had made an app-defaults file with this, but it
seems I just added the option to some script somewhere. Oh
well... It's funny how your memory sends you on wild goose
chases sometimes...