On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Guy Voets wrote:
2009/4/2 Philippe Verkerk <[email protected]>
I was used to OOo working with X11 on Mac (PPC G5 OS X 10.4.11) and
I tried
to switch to OOo 3.0.1_fr, and it does NOT work. I mainly use the
writer :
it allows to open a text file and to modify it, as Simpletext does,
except
that it takes much longer.
As soon as I try to define the language of my text, I land in the
middle of
nowhere : nothing happens and I am not able anymore to add a single
character in my text. I can still move the window, but the
characters I type
do not appear. Then, I quit (cmd-Q). Surprisingly, the finder warns
me that
OOo has quited "inopinément", and the characters I typed a long
time ago
appear in the window which stay there.
I quote from a mail in the French users list
([email protected]):
about the famous method that solves almost anything...
Quit OOo (and the Quickstarter - probably not on Mac)
Rename the prefs file Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org
(c:\documents and settings\Application Data\<nom d'usager>
\Openoffice.org)
or put that file elsewhere, e.g. on the desktop
Restart OOo
OOo will make new preferences and maybe that will solve your
problem...
I post this answer on the users list, not on the mac list that is
more for
mac developers.
I send you a copy, since you're apparently subscribed to neither of
these
lists.
For OO 3.0.1 and OSX 10.5, the preferences file is named
"org.openoffice.script.plist" (all preferences files in OSX have the
extension "plist") and it's in Users/username/Library/Application
Support/Preferences.
I suggest putting it in the trash, rather than renaming it. A renamed
version will simply hang around forever, serving no purpose. But, yes,
quit OO before trashing it; then relaunch.
Another "one size fits all" fix in OSX (if trashing the preferences
doesn't help) is to use Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Dave
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