Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-09 Thread LM
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? If you're trying to convert a document from Word format, you may want to take a look at antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp

[blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread Dan McGhee
I discovered in my research that autofs needs discreetly identified mount points for removable devices. This is great for unique devices like CD/DVD players, cameras and PDA's, but it's quite cumbersome for mass storage devices with multiple partitions on them. As a result, I installed xfce4

Re: [blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread David Brodie
On 09/12/13 18:30, Dan McGhee wrote: I discovered in my research that autofs needs discreetly identified mount points for removable devices. This is great for unique devices like CD/DVD players, cameras and PDA's, but it's quite cumbersome for mass storage devices with multiple partitions on

[blfs-support] AbiWord build report (Was: Re: Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.)

2013-12-09 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:34:24 +0100 Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I got it. I love the font AbiWord is using by default. A couple of things needed a couple of patches. I'll push them to the list tomorrow, it's late now. Well, it took me a while. These are some of AbiWords

Re: [blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread David Brodie
On 09/12/13 20:53, Matt Burgess wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:52 +, David Brodie wrote: plus you need a polkit rules file for udisks2, which is written in Javascript format for the latest version of Polkit - this is a very simple example: My *deity*! It's bad enough that some config

Re: [blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/09/2013 01:52 PM, David Brodie wrote: Hi You need both udisks2 and gvfs - the latter is actually a dependency of Thunar itself, not just thunar-volman - All of these are installed. plus you need a polkit rules file for udisks2, which is written in Javascript format for the latest

Re: [blfs-support] AbiWord build report (Was: Re: Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.)

2013-12-09 Thread akhiezer
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:59:51 +0100 From: Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [blfs-support] AbiWord build report (Was: Re: Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.) . . and pretty straightforward, unlike OpenOffice (I

Re: [blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread David Brodie
On 09/12/13 21:28, Dan McGhee wrote: Thank you for this example. This is the syntax I don't understand. I don't speak Java. :-) Ahem, java*script*...completely different. ;) The polkit daemon usually has its own user and group. This is new! As I was checking my logs and where things are,

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-09 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:04:14 -0500 LM lme...@gmail.com wrote: Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? If you're trying to convert a document from Word format, you may want to take a look at antiword:

Re: [blfs-support] AbiWord build report (Was: Re: Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.)

2013-12-09 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:26:22 + lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:59:51 +0100 From: Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [blfs-support] AbiWord build report (Was: Re: Ways to convert a .doc to something more

Re: [blfs-support] Automounting

2013-12-09 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/09/2013 03:41 PM, David Brodie wrote: On 09/12/13 21:28, Dan McGhee wrote: Thank you for this example. This is the syntax I don't understand. I don't speak Java. :-) Ahem, java*script*...completely different. ;) The polkit daemon usually has its own user and group. This is new! As I

[blfs-support] Xorg: startx will not start

2013-12-09 Thread Hans P.
Hello, My BLFS run in an Virtualbox environment, so i have installed the Xorg-Cirrus-Driver and the Xorg-Vesa-Driver. Accordingly, i have enabled the modules in the kernel. So i have expanded the file /etc/sysconfig/modules: cirrusfb # Fallback uvesafb When I try to start 'startx', then i get

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg: startx will not start

2013-12-09 Thread Armin K.
On 10.12.2013 0:06, Hans P. wrote: Hello, My BLFS run in an Virtualbox environment, so i have installed the Xorg-Cirrus-Driver and the Xorg-Vesa-Driver. Accordingly, i have enabled the modules in the kernel. So i have expanded the file /etc/sysconfig/modules: cirrusfb # Fallback uvesafb