Randy McMurchy wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 02/09/06 01:34 CST: >> The spellchecker underlines EVERY word as I type. >> >> I installed the English(British) dictiionary, no change. If I 'ignore' >> a word that doesn't take the underline off. If I 'ignore-all' a word it >> doesn't change the other instances. Seems well broken. >> >> Any ideas? > > None. It works great here. If you have your mail-client ID display > on, you'll see I'm typing this from a Thunderbird 1.5 (built 20060120) > client and I don't have anything underlined except for a couple of > things in my sig. > > Oops, sig becomes underlined. And Richard, I am one that *really* > appreciates the on-the-fly spell checker, so it was one feature I > checked out first thing. > > Wish I could help. >
You did. Just knowing that it works, and knowing I was using your method of building, then it had to be something local. I checked what root could do, and... The problem is the permissions for the files in /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell The instance of Tbird seems to need to have rw access to them. ro access isn't enough. How these got installed with the wrong perms I don't know, but they were all there, the US dictionary had 600 perms - so root could write American, but ordinary users couldn't. The GB dicts were 400, so no-one could write proper English! chmod 666 /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5/components/myspell/* I'd appreciate knowing what perms you have on those files, Randy? R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
