2.1.5 Nav bar messed up
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EH,
and don't tell me i didn't try:Tried to re-install (purge and install the package…)
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer : Tahoma is not being installed.
if you google a little more, you will find that M$ did not release Tahoma as a freely available font. Requiring paid-for closed source fonts on an open-source community circled web-ui driven software is kind of - eh, well.
And yes, i cleared cache in firefox. I tried the crtl-+ as well, but to no avail. As soon as you hover over the System menu item, the system menu pops up. However, as you try to move down, you have to cross the help menu item that's gotten positioned right under the system menu. Boom, you get the Help Menu.
So you cannot access tha System Menu.
major pain in the back.
So, you get the security advisory to install 2.1.5, but from a usability standpoint, please don't. DO NOT update systems you can not reach physically, or you have not enabled other way of accessing the console otherwise. You might get screwed out of using the system menu.
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That last part "Don't update systems you can't reach physically" is probably good advice at every upgrade. Its probably best to wait a week to see how many problems others have and then update if it doesn't seem too risky and things are going well for most people.
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EH,
and don't tell me i didn't try:Tried to re-install (purge and install the package…)
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer : Tahoma is not being installed.
if you google a little more, you will find that M$ did not release Tahoma as a freely available font. Requiring paid-for closed source fonts on an open-source community circled web-ui driven software is kind of - eh, well.
And yes, i cleared cache in firefox. I tried the crtl-+ as well, but to no avail. As soon as you hover over the System menu item, the system menu pops up. However, as you try to move down, you have to cross the help menu item that's gotten positioned right under the system menu. Boom, you get the Help Menu.
So you cannot access tha System Menu.
major pain in the back.
So, you get the security advisory to install 2.1.5, but from a usability standpoint, please don't. DO NOT update systems you can not reach physically, or you have not enabled other way of accessing the console otherwise. You might get screwed out of using the system menu.
Yep I also tried reinstalling the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. Didn't work. I didn't realize Tahoma isn't included in that. I'm surprised they would do something like this considering how web development these days is more highly focused on cross-platform compatibility.
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see the other thread soewhere in the forum.
for me, purging the corefonts did the trick
alternatively, you can access the mobile gui by faking device type (there's a plugin for that somewhere) or by viewing the page in "no stylesheet" or by manually typing the urls. you can find them in the other thread:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=81049.30
Apparently, the layout itself is the source of all evil, (fixed width just breaks when the "wrong" font is used, some of the need just a tad less or more width, mostly verdana is the culprit.)
good Luck!
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Another possible solution is to use this script I found to install Tahoma.
http://vassie.me/installing-microsoft-core-web-fonts-including-tahoma-on-ubuntu/
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Changing things on the browser is not a good solution.
The problem exists on Windows 7, Mac OS, and Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04.
I have 9 pfSens boxes in 5 different countries.
How many PCs do I have to change?Why not put the gold link somewhere in the help dropdown?
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Quick Solution to Nar bar messed up
Steps:
1 Highlight "System".
2 Press "Tab" key on your keyboard (System menu shall be underlined).
3 Continue to press the "Tab" key to scroll through the "System" menu.
4 With the desired item selected press "Enter" on the keyboard.
I hope this helps for a time. -
I'm having this problem on Firefox running under Ubuntu; using the developer tools to widen the #navigation div (all.css:406) from 750 px to 756 px allows the Help menu to go back up top. While I can manually fix the CSS myself, would it be very difficult to simply widen the bar to 775 px or so in order to provide a safety margin in case the sans serif it defaults to is a bit wider than the norm? #header-right .container .right #hostname would have to have it's left and width properties updated, and maybe have the background images stretched as well, and the whole kit would still fit on a browser window as wide as it does now.
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I can't believe people are still struggling with this when it's been answered already in 3-4 different forums over the past few weeks.
Either reduce your font in your web browser or install the widescreen patch.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=81167.0
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hahaha had this one today, so i did the following:
typed https://this.is.my.wall:443/system.php and changed theme to nervecenter.
