On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:05:46 -0500 Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Oh man, that is hell. I wish I had some suggestions, but I have no > experience with or access to Ubuntu or 64-bit hardware. > > I couldn't tell: have you tried any of the OO.org downloads? Oh wait, I > guess they don't have any 64-bit builds. Never mind--sorry. > > With your hint however, I did find that the change came with Gtk 2.10: > > GTK+ - GTK+-2.10 Release notes > http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.10-notes.html > > GTK+ 2.10 Specific Notes > > * The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no longer > > blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift-<hex digit> key sequences. Now > > it only uses Ctrl-Shift-u. > And some helpful discussion here: > rrwo hates software: Gnome's Character Map > http://rrwo.hates-software.com/2006/12/14/e1bad4d7.html > > As Fedora 5 is still using Gtk+ 2.8, that explains why Ctrl+Shift+u > doesn't work for me. But it still doesn't explain why OOo doesn't use > the old Ctrl+Shift+xxxx. After I sent that last message to the list I did some more experimenting. First, I went into ~/ and found the /.openoffice folder. I already knew that that is where OOo stores personal settings. I renamed it by appending .old2. Then I opened Synaptic and uninstalled OOo 2.0.4 yet again, a complete uninstall. In Synaptic "complete" uninstall is supposed to remove all configuration files as well. After it was finished I opened Nautilus (Gnome file browser) and did a search on openoffice*. Looking at the results I can tell you this -- when they say "complete" they lie. There were hundreds of files and folders named openoffice* all over my hard disk. I spent the next hour deleting all of them except the ones in ~/.openoffice.old2/ and the dictionary and font files. A lot of them were for OOo 2.1. I even nuked all the package files that Synaptic caches on your hard disk in case you want to reinstall. Having done all that I reinstalled 2.0.4. When I launched Writer it was just the basic version without my customization. I tried Ctrl+Shift+u and again, nothing happened. <sigh>. I decided it was time to check mail again, and there was your message. After I read it I went back to Snaptic and installed all the rest of the OOo 2.0.4 goodies, especially anything relating to Gnome or GTK. When it finished I fired Writer back up again and tried Ctrl+Shift+u. It worked!!! Yay!!!! I still can't drag and drop text. And I have new problems -- installing it created a new ~/openoffice.org2 folder. I closed OOo, then renamed the new folder ~/openoffice.org.old3, then renamed my old one ~/openoffice.org2. But when I launch Writer it still doesn't see my old settings. Well, I can recreate all those things, I suppose. And there is another problem -- all the menu items are in some Symbol font. As a result I can only guess where the settings are in Tools > Options. One step forward, three steps back. Nevertheless, I owe you a beer for the tip about Gtk. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
