Hi :) Errr, i wouldn't have thought of poking around in the bios but it's a brilliant idea! Regards from Tom :)
On 14 August 2014 08:36, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > I agree with Jean-Francois Nifenecker that it might be worth poking > around in the Bios. > > It's a scary thing for most normal users but i'm guessing you've already > had a look back when you changed the boot-order to install non-Windows. > So, you already know that you can poke around quite a bit to explore and > then escape without saving changes. > > I tend to use that "Exit without saving changes" to allow me to explore, > exit and then back in again to make the specific changes i want. Also i > find it's worth taking photos of the different screens before making > adjustments or to jot down the changes i make so that if it does go weird i > can get it back to the way it was before without having to take the mbord > battery out to reset it. > > > Windows wont have any effect on anything outside of itself. It can't even > see non-Windows partitions and often claims such things don't exist. > > However there is firmware but that is between the hardware manufacturer > and your machine. It's nothing to do with MS. > > Some distros are better at hardware detection than others. Some prefer > one set of defaults others prefer different configurations. Apparently > Mint is the only one to think that you might prefer the manufacturers > defaults rather than the FOSS ones. > > > An interesting thread! Thanks! :)) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 14 August 2014 06:29, Thomas Blasejewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (2014/08/14 12:39), Tim Lloyd wrote: >> >>> I downloaded Mint 17 which is running LO 4.2.3.3. I looked in writer and >>> calc where F5 and F11 were behaving as normal (navigator & styles and >>> formatting). >>> >>> I have noted though that behaviour is not consistent across the distros >>> you have tested which may point at Mint. I can't for the life of me think >>> why though! >>> >>> I was one of the respondents to your post on linuxquestions. A >>> suggestion...let's give it another day for responses to filter through >>> there. If nothing useful comes out, how about asking the linuxquestions >>> admin people to move the post to the mint forum? I think reps of the distro >>> hang around at that forum so may be able to advise one way or the other. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> On 14/08/14 12:31, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: >>> >>>> (2014/08/14 10:55), Paul wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Thomas, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> >>>>> I also thought about that already, although I have currently no idea >>>> how to change that keyboard behavior. >>>> BUT ... if that were true ..would / should LibreOffice not behave in >>>> the same way under Ubuntu (Unity desktop), Xubuntu (XFCE) and Mint >>>> (Cinnamon)? >>>> >>>> If I revall correctly (this is an old PC of my daugther), I borrowed it >>>> a few years back when I had to spend a week away from home. >>>> At that time the PC was running Windows Vista and I used LibreOffice in >>>> that environment, but do not remember any such behavior ... >>>> >>>> >>> Thank you all! >> By now I figured out, that you have to combine EVERY function key with >> the Fn key. >> If you do so, it works. Have not yet tested all possible combinations. >> >> This is not perfect, but I will still with this, and not go back to Unity. >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- >> unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
