Hi,
If you're having problems getting the spell checker in OpenOffice.org to work on Red Hat and Fedora based machines and you want it fixed, you have come to the right place!
THIS POST IS QUITE LONG AND IF YOU JUST WANT THE ANSWER THE JUST SCROLL DOWN A BIT!!!
P.S. The may work on other distros having the same problem.
OK, Here is the story so far:
Your using one of the OOo programs to write a document and you see red lines, indicating a spelling error. When you right click it the whole P.C. Freezes, most people would instantly reach for the button marked “Reset” but there is no need to do this, about 5 minutes later a list of spelling corrections will appear!
But that is really annoying!
The reason for this is because Red Hat is aimed at anyone speaking any language! So they install ALL the dictionaries. This overloads OOo and causes it to hang until they have all loaded!
!!!THE ANSWER!!!
Find your dictionary.lst file (usually in “/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo”) here you'll see something like this:
Code:
DICT bg BG bg_BG
DICT ca ES ca_ES
DICT da DK da_DK
DICT de AT de_AT
DICT de CH de_CH
DICT de DE de_DE
DICT el GR el_GR
DICT en AU en_AU
DICT en CA en_CA
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en NZ en_NZ
DICT en US en_US
DICT es ES es_ES
DICT es MX es_MX
DICT fr FR fr_FR
DICT hr HR hr_HR
DICT hu HU hu_HU
DICT it IT it_IT
DICT la af la.af
DICT nb NO nb_NO
DICT nl NL nl_NL
DICT nn NO nn_NO
DICT pl PL pl_PL
DICT pt BR pt_BR
DICT pt PT pt_PT
DICT ru RU ru_RU
DICT sk SK sk_SK
DICT sl SI sl_SI
DICT sv SE sv_SE
DICT uk UA uk_UA
DICT bg BG bg_BG
DICT ca ES ca_ES
DICT da DK da_DK
DICT de AT de_AT
DICT de CH de_CH
DICT de DE de_DE
DICT el GR el_GR
DICT en AU en_AU
DICT en CA en_CA
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en NZ en_NZ
DICT en US en_US
DICT es ES es_ES
DICT es MX es_MX
DICT fr FR fr_FR
DICT hr HR hr_HR
DICT hu HU hu_HU
DICT it IT it_IT
DICT la la
DICT nb NO nb_NO
DICT nl NL nl_NL
DICT nn NO nn_NO
DICT pl PL pl_PL
DICT pt BR pt_BR
DICT pt PT pt_PT
DICT ru RU ru_RU
DICT sk SK sk_SK
DICT sl SI sl_SI
DICT sv SE sv_SE
DICT uk UA uk_UA
HYPH da DK da_DK
HYPH de CH de_CH
HYPH de DE de_DE
HYPH en CA en_CA
HYPH en GB en_GB
HYPH en US en_US
HYPH es ES es_ES
HYPH fr BE fr_BE
HYPH fr FR fr_FR
HYPH hu HU hu_HU
HYPH it IT it_IT
HYPH nl NL nl_NL
HYPH pl PL pl_PL
HYPH pt BR pt_BR
HYPH pt PT pt_PT
HYPH ru RU ru_RU
HYPH sk SK sk_SK
HYPH sl sl
HYPH sv SE sv_SE
HYPH uk uk
THES de DE th_de_DE
THES en US th_en_US
THES hu HU th_hu_HU
As you can see this is far to many dictionaries to be loaded
Try shortening it to something more like this!
Code:
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en US en_US
DICT en GB en_GB
DICT en US en_US
HYPH en GB en_GB
HYPH en US en_US
THES en US th_en_US
Restart OOo, make a spelling mistake, right click
Now the box should instantly appear!
Hope this helps
Ian
OOo Spell checker on Red Hat and Fedora (FIXED PLEASE READ)
