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skottish

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I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

I'm not sure what just happened, but I no longer have spell checking capability in nearly anything. OpenOffice, Firefox, and LyX just to name a few. It still works in Gedit, so something is happening. I have both Aspell and Ispell installed. I have the OpenOffice spelling package installed. I didn't really change much. In fact, the only thing I changed was removed some "orphans" to find out one of them was necessary to web browsing (nss-mdns... possible bug report later). I reinstalled all of them to see if it helped.

And....

I also replaced my version of FF3 (firefox3-systemcairo) with the one in the repos, complete with the xulrunner update and such. Any connection here?

--EDIT--

OpenOffice was a fluke. It turns out that the development branch is the only one suffering from this. I could have sworn it worked, but it's working. I'm probably wrong here.

The others?

Last edited by skottish (2008-06-26 01:25:02)

skottish

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Bump.

Is spell checking working for anyone in Firefox 3 from the repos now?

fwojciec

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Right click on a text-edit field in firefox and there should be an option for adding/downloading dictionaries available.  Once you install the dictionary of your choice spellchecking should work.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-06-25 23:57:40)

Berticus

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Learn how to spell?

skottish

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Learn how to spell?

It took me almost 2000 posts to learn to operate Linux and now you want me to learn to spell?

fwojciec, prefect. Thanks.

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I always seem to post with really messy coincidences. Don't think so? How about LyX? Where's the spell check there?

Last edited by skottish (2008-06-26 00:16:44)

fwojciec

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Lyx works for me with aspell -- there is an option for choosing the dictionary executable in the preferences (for me it works with aspell and aspell-library, or something like that).

skottish

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

I've had aspell and aspell-en installed long before LyX came into my world. They're still here. But, as I said, I'm experiencing a bunch of coincidences here. Are you using LyX 1.5.5?

Last edited by skottish (2008-06-26 00:52:10)

fwojciec

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Yep -- 1.5.5.  When I fired it up to check if the spellcheck was working a moment ago it wasn't...  So I went into the preferences and played with the setting there, and after a bit of fiddling with it it started to work again.  I can't tell you exactly what I did -- I just tried different options from the drop down menu in preferences and when, eventually, after receiving some error messages for ispell and so on, I reverted back to aspell it was working again.

skottish

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Re: I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

Yep -- 1.5.5.  When I fired it up to check if the spellcheck was working a moment ago it wasn't...  So I went into the preferences and played with the setting there, and after a bit of fiddling with it it started to work again.  I can't tell you exactly what I did -- I just tried different options from the drop down menu in preferences and when, eventually, after receiving some error messages for ispell and so on, I reverted back to aspell it was working again.

I removed my .lyx file, and spell checking is sort of working. It's not exactly what it use to be, but it's doing something. I can spell fairly well, I just like to write freely without worrying too much about stuff; That's what proof reading is for.

Thanks fwojciec. Yet another bizarre set of coincidences "resolved".

---EDIT---

By the way, versionpkg works here:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 2008/02/24 19:13:58 skottish, modification of Jason Chu's Exp $
# Maintainer: skottish <MAIL STUFF>
pkgname=lyx-svn
pkgver=25391
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An advanced open-source document processor."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='http://www.lyx.org'
depends=('qt' 'tetex' 'python' 'perl' 'imagemagick' 'aspell' 'aiksaurus' 'boost')
source=()
md5sums=()
license=('GPL2')
provides=('lyx')
conflicts=('lyx')

_svntrunk=svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk
_svnmod=lyx-devel

build() {

  cd $startdir/src
  svn co $_svntrunk/ $_svnmod 
  cd $_svnmod

  ./autogen.sh &> /dev/null
  ./configure --prefix=/usr 
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

Last edited by skottish (2008-09-28 04:13:11)