Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. How to go about this bug? I have four systems two x86 and two amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45:26AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. How to go about this bug? I have four

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread Joseph
On 10/20/13 20:09, J. Roeleveld wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon l og in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. How to go about this bug? I

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread Joseph
On 10/20/13 20:09, J. Roeleveld wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon l og in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. How to go about this bug? I

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread Joseph
On 10/20/13 20:42, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45:26AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top.

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread Joseph
On 10/20/13 20:42, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45:26AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top.

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/20/13 20:42, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45:26AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any username / password text upon log in; now

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread BRM
From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: From: Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org (27 Jul 2011) # Old

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tomáš Chvátalscarab...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread skiarxon
Yeap there is a version for windows and it works fine. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by @selected, required by @world (argument) #

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. Is it much worse than OpenOffice? Build times are nearly identical on my system but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary. Is it much worse than

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and on at least two machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice remerge failed

2011-07-24 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Sunday 24 July 2011 22:27:34 Mick wrote: It must be one of the most annoying things in Gentoo when OOo fails at the very last minute! It may be this was caused by me forgetting to set MAKEOPTS=-j1 but just in case something else is amiss, does this look familiar?

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice remerge failed

2011-07-24 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: It must be one of the most annoying things in Gentoo when OOo fails at the very last minute! It may be this was caused by me forgetting to set MAKEOPTS=-j1 but just in case something else is amiss, does this look familiar? SNIP Before I start again, shall I switch to

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice and IDL

2011-02-02 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the build hangs. Anyone seen this before? - it is happening on only one of my systems and I google isnt showing me any similar

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice and IDL

2011-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the build hangs. Anyone seen this

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice and IDL

2011-02-02 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Bill Kenworthy wrote: I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-3.1.0: nsplugin USE flag does nothing?

2009-06-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 18:23:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I enabled the nsplugin USE flag in OOo 3.1.0 and re-emerged. Curiously, nothing changed. There's no plugin listed in Firefox (3.0.11). Am I missing something obvious? I'm on AMD64. OOo has been emerged with following USE flags:

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-3.1.0: nsplugin USE flag does nothing?

2009-06-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I enabled the nsplugin USE flag in OOo 3.1.0 and re-emerged. Curiously, nothing changed. There's no plugin listed in Firefox (3.0.11). Am I missing something obvious? I'm on AMD64. OOo has been emerged with

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Jim Cunning schrieb: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
Jim Cunning wrote on 08/05/09 06:49: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-04 Thread Saphirus Sage
Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

2009-05-04 Thread Saphirus Sage
Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-02 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 01 Dec 2008, Fernando Antunes wrote: 2008/12/1 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James, ooo 3 use extensions to install dictionaries. James

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-01 Thread Fernando Antunes
2008/12/1 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James, ooo 3 use extensions to install dictionaries. James

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. So, I killed firefox to free

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Redouane Boumghar
ha ha ! :) Ok thanks for the GWB citations there is one I love too : I beleive that fish and human being can coexist ! GWB At Some Conference where he had random access. Ok by the way the RAM doesn't seem to be a problem since Micheal(?) has 1GB and I hope 256 MB were at least free during the

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. So, I killed firefox to free up memory and let it build overnight. The build completed successfully. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/21 Paul Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This only applies to OOo 2.x ebuilds... there is no Go-oo of 3.x and I don't think Gentoo uses it from what I could tell. So what do you think are the following SRC_URI's

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. So, I killed firefox to free up

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:39, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyone see this before? Thanks, Mike To quote the error message: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if * relevant. * A complete build log is located at *

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: To quote the error message: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if * relevant. * A complete build log is located at * '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread deface
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: To quote the error message: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if * relevant. * A complete build log is located at * '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:48, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: Running processes: 0 deliver -- version: 1.130 Module 'sw' delivered successfully. 261 files copied, 0 files unchanged 1 module(s): chart2 need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s):

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled system is even more idiotic. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled system is even more idiotic. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 13:49:51 schrieb ext deface: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Here's another one: using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into your otherwise self-compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 14:14:25 schrieb ext Dirk Uys: Another reason is that OO is reputed for having a very complicated build system that takes up a lot of resources to complete. Depending on the hardware you are doing this on using a binary package that most likely doesn't fit into

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 deface said: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Then maybe the gentoo docs should instruct that. Mind you, I thought that compiling from source was the only point to using Gentoo. I'm getting quite a mixed message here. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Philip Webb
081120 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 20/11/08 deface said: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Then maybe the gentoo docs should instruct that. I thought that compiling from source was the only point to using Gentoo. I'm getting quite a mixed message here. Don't feed trolls,

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hello everyone, I guess you all missunderestimated the alert about Random Access Memory. I had the same problem, I could not compile openoffice. I just had the same warning message and the merge stopped. I only had 512 of RAM from which 128 are used by my graphic card, and with the system running

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: That still doesn't show where the error occured, try to dig out the actual error in build.log, or attach it. http://home.digitaltorque.ca/build.log.gz Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. I've had issues in the past with Gentoo on small memory systems, but if that's the problem here, it's the first time it's happened since install.

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 15:51:54 schrieb ext Michael P. Soulier: On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: That still doesn't show where the error occured, try to dig out the actual error in build.log, or attach it. http://home.digitaltorque.ca/build.log.gz So you should add this part of it to

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag 20 November 2008 14:14:25 schrieb ext Dirk Uys: Another reason is that OO is reputed for having a very complicated build system that takes up a lot of resources to complete. Depending on the hardware you are doing this on using a binary package that

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
Florian Philipp wrote: ..and the additional featuresd which the binary distro doesn't offer: http://go-oo.org/discover/ oooh - Go-OO! indeed! I'm scrapping my oo-bin straight away! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #414: tachyon emissions overloading the system

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: ..and the additional featuresd which the binary distro doesn't offer: http://go-oo.org/discover/ oooh - Go-OO! indeed! I'm scrapping my oo-bin straight away! This only applies to OOo 2.x

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
Redouane Boumghar wrote: Hello everyone, I guess you all missunderestimated the alert about Random Access Memory. so we overestimated it then? They misunderestimated me. George W. Bush November 6, 2000 Comment made in Bentonville, Arkansas. Those who think that they can say we're only going

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 21 November 2008 01:26:28 schrieb ext Paul Hartman: This only applies to OOo 2.x ebuilds... there is no Go-oo of 3.x and I don't think Gentoo uses it from what I could tell. You should read the ebuild, then. It has all the facts. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs |

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/21 Paul Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This only applies to OOo 2.x ebuilds... there is no Go-oo of 3.x and I don't think Gentoo uses it from what I could tell. So what do you think are the following SRC_URI's from the current openoffice-3 for? MY_PV=3.0.0.3.5 PATCHLEVEL=OOO300

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-05 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The result: a clean compile, as near as I can tell, but useless. Now it quits silently a second or so into any startup, with or without a filename on the command line. No message on the terminal where I start it, and no clue I can see about what's wrong. I'm back to MSOffice. I hate it

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
081103 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: After reading some of the comments here, I re-synced, unmerged Ooo, and emerged openoffice and hunspell. I already had the myspell-en build. The result: a clean compile, but useless. Now it quits silently a second or so into any startup, with or without a

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 4, 2008, Philip Webb wrote: I'm back to MSOffice. I hate it but it works. Sorry, might be coming late to this discussion and offering something that was already offered, but how about openoffice-bin ? It works for me 100% of the time on several workstations without a glitch (both

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markos Chandras wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I have am new to Gentoo. My previous experience is with slackware . I Downloaded the Live CD and installed Gentoo twice .. but the problem is Grub is not installed. I have a dual boot with Widowz and Grub for dos ... So I tried it using the grub console root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/ -- and

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Adam Carter
Hi I have am new to Gentoo. Ok, first thing to do is resubmit this post with a useful subject title :-) Many people like to file things away or ignore stuff that they're not interested in, so the subject is important.

RE: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Adam Carter
I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console that started it says: error - missing word count in dictionary file Hash Manager Error : 4 So I'm guessing there's a problem in

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console that started it says: error - missing word count in

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Fernando Antunes
On 11/2/08, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-02 Thread Dale
Markos Chandras wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console that started it says:

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-01 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged right away: the console that started it says: error - missing word count in dictionary file Hash Manager Error : 4 So I'm guessing

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-2.4.1 complaining about Java Runtime Environment

2008-09-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
Open OpenOffice.org, go to Tools - Options - Java and select an installed JDK. Presto. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Open Office seems to run ok, but at start-up, I get the following message: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-2.4.1 complaining about Java Runtime Environment

2008-09-26 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:09 -0400 Denis wrote: Open OpenOffice.org, go to Tools - Options - Java and select an installed JDK. I tried selecting /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.16/jre/bin but it will not take it! Where is JRE installed then? My machine has it at /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.07/jre/bin HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself is always the better idea. Not so obviously better when it fails.  Here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself is

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my session, but shortly after that it simply dies. There's no dialog box,

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 24 September 2008 07:28:42 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my session, but shortly after

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch 24 September 2008 07:28:42 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-23 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my session, but shortly after that it simply dies. There's no dialog box,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Justin
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm unable to find it!

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Justin schrieb: Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
080921 Florian Philipp wrote: app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher emerged with app-office/openoffice but I'm unable to find it! As help to others who need it, here is my own note to myself : OO Quickstarter :

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root

2008-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 05 September 2008 16:01:17 Grant Edwards wrote: After my last emerge -auvND world, openoffice stopped working for non-root users. When I run strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a child that was forked to

What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu

Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and

ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash

Re: ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:34:54PM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? See

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu ? If the latter, check that

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice does n ot accept keyboard input (such as üéè )

2007-12-21 Thread Erik
Bo Ørsted Andresen skrev: On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:50:33 Erik wrote: On one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè. The output of `locale` and the output of `locale -a` ? Thanks! That was the problem! It was wrong. I executed locale-gen and rebooted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice does n ot accept keyboard input (such as üéè )

2007-12-21 Thread Erik
Erik skrev: Bo Ørsted Andresen skrev: On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:50:33 Erik wrote: On one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè. The output of `locale` and the output of `locale -a` ? Thanks! That was the problem! It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-12-05 Thread Julian Simioni
On Nov 28, 2007 11:56 AM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I decided to compile openoffice 2.3.0 but I run into an error. The compilation error is this: checking whether to enable build of Mozilla/Mozilla NSS-using components... yes checking whether to build Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-12-05 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 12. 6, csütörtök keltezéssel 00.02-kor Julian Simioni ezt írta: Are you by chance using Firefox beta 3? Hi, Thank you for your interesting! No, I use normal firefox, at this moment the version is 2.0.0.11. + My openoffice cannot detect any java environment. Yesterday I spent

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice

2007-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 11 June 2007, James wrote: Hello, When I start up open office (amd64) I get these error messages: ooffice ./CCPS-fiber-co.doc QSettings: failed to open file '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qtrc' (process:9443): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-17 Thread William Kenworthy
correct, though I think its hunspell. For some reason gentoos install disables OO's native spell checker and wants to use an external one - Its performance (finding errors) sucks compared to the original but I havent had time find how to restore the original behaviour. Yesterday I found that

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Rob Rutherford
The spell check is based on the language setting for the text in the document. Format-Character-Font Make sure the language is set correctly you probably want English (USA) . On 5/16/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Rob Rutherford
On 5/16/07, Rob Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've tried OO-bin and now I compiles OO on an amd64. both do not have spell check working. Now on the compiled version, I get this message when it fires up, repeated about 14 times to

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: It seems to work, but no spell checking? I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell checking in OpenOffice. At least, I seem to remember that being the case... R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: James wrote: It seems to work, but no spell checking? I think you want to emerge app-dicts/aspell-en for English spell checking in OpenOffice. At least, I seem to remember that being the case... R This may have changed, everything else does, but I THINK I read

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