Webconfigurator GUI: 'System' pulldown blocked by 'help' for some widths
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Try deleting your entire browser cache including CSS sheets.
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I think its now a given that the font should be changed to something more universal, but besides that one font issue, all non-font related issues seem to be fixed with a cache purge and restart of browser. There are two separate issues going on. One is font. The other is cache.
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Try this: Install an 'out of the box' xubuntu, then make sure both the 'out of the box' Chromium (google) and Firefox browsers are loaded. Be sure to install the 'long term support' versions likely to be favored by pfsense users. Currently, that's 'Trusty' which will be shipped for two year. Go to a PFsense homepage. Log in. See the 'System' options not be available as they are hidden by the help options. Post a bug about it. Notice the irony that an open source software package requires a non-free Microsoft font 'Tahoma' to be installed by obscure technical processes before it works properly. Have the bug be rejected. I'm not making this up.
It was working on Firefox using the verison before 2.15, then upon 2.15 it failed. It might have been because I went in and hacked the menu code to fix this and my revision got deleted, I can't keep track of those details. However, I did go and install Tahoma on the systems I care about, and I can leave this issue of 'how much do you love Tahoma and how much do you like bug reports' to other people!
Attachment of screenshot in firefox, same as Chromium displayed, pre 'install this, download the cab with tahoma, copy the tahoma font, update the fonts' hack-fest on each of the affected systems.
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I don't think "Re-install your computer to accommodate a pfsense anonymously that will probably get corrected in 3 days" is the best advice. I'd wait a few days.
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You are of course correct. I mention this as the bug I filed on the topic was rejected within moments of having been posted yesterday, so I had no expectation anything was going to be done. Notice also this forum discussion has been around awhile, and I got an update about it today. So I got a little frustrated by the experience. I wasn't so happy having to learn how to download and deploy a Microsoft font in order to access pfsense's gui. Anyhow I do appreciate pfsense quite a lot, and hate to see this little cosmetic things be an actual barrier to deployment.
Apologies all 'round. Have a good weekend!
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I just upgraded my pfsense to 2.1.5-RELEASE (i386). But I found 2 dropdown menus are overlapping, making it hard to access. Is there any chance to fix it on our own?
I'm using 3 browsers, Chrome, Chromium, and FireFox, all give me same result, overlapping
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Just for reference I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 with Firefox 31 on several systems and I've not done anything to add fonts. On each system I simply had to refresh the page to get the help menu back where it should be.
640x480 should be enough for anybody. ;)
Steve
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In order to get pfsense to work, you've got to, on every non microsoft system running a screen larger than they had in 1985, install a compatibility package, and then download a CAB file, extract it's contents, copy a file to the right directory, then rebuild the fonts. Some details here, but I did it manually and not using the script.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1459709.html
This is a bug pfsense has on both chromium and firefox. Really I don't think it's font related, I think it's a bug in the stylesheet since the correct thing to do if the font doesn't fit is to extend the image to the right and not create another column.
But, hey, good luck. Try filing a bug report, maybe yours won't get killed like mine did.
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Couldnt agree more!
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Not to mention: there are hundreds of free, opensource fonts, available from https://www.google.com/fonts with a proper API, ready to embed into your code. Tahoma my ass… ::) >:(
P.S. The entire table-based GUI mess needs to be flushed down the drain in the first place, along with the non-UTF8 encoding.
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Been saying that for a long time. Jdilliard is the webdev. for ESF so I guess he is on top of things :)
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Just to clarify I'm not actually running at 640x480. Still had no problem using a, relatively, clean Xubuntu install.
Clearly there is an issue though.Steve
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I cleared the issue by doing a hard refresh of the page
Ctrl-F5
pfSense 2.1.5
openSuse 13.1
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I had this issue on 3 of my 7 pfsense boxes after the upgrade to 2.1.5. Only in Safari, but on multiple computers. It looked fine in firefox and IE. I restarted the browser and that fixed the issue on most of them. One of the pfsense changed behavior after a reboot. Which tells me resolution had nothing to do with it.
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It is a font issue, see:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=81073.15
