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Yes I have exactly the same problem. On top of that, backspace doesnt work.
Going to tools->customize and resetting the keyboard shortcuts also crashes the application. Its better to wait for the next bugfix by the looks of things, and theres not really that much things useful in 3.0 anyway (and you still cant select multiple objects in writer...) that justifies the instability and loosing the use of backspace and arrow keys.
Uh...did you read the REST of the thread, which explains how to fix that problem? The problem isn't OOo 3, it's the method with which OOo 3 was installed.
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Originally Posted by hitest
I don't use rpm2tgz, I prefer to use official packages, Robby or Eric's packages, or build scripts from slackbuilds.org. Keys are working here.
I know some of you all have a Debian system running on the side. I mostly run Sid, but my "safe" system is a carefully maintained Lenny/Sid mix on an old 32-bit laptop. It's about 90% Lenny (soon to be Stable.)
About a month ago, I decided to pull OOo 3.0 from Experimental, just to see if Lenny could handle it. I'm not an Office power user, but I have had absolutely no issues. It did pull 5 or 6 libraries from Unstable but no obvious conflicts.
Yes I have exactly the same problem. On top of that, backspace doesnt work.
Going to tools->customize and resetting the keyboard shortcuts also crashes the application. Its better to wait for the next bugfix by the looks of things, and theres not really that much things useful in 3.0 anyway (and you still cant select multiple objects in writer...) that justifies the instability and loosing the use of backspace and arrow keys.
I think it's the path problem. The SlackBuild has a diff file which corrects the path of the executables and i guess that's the trick to make it works on Slackware.
I have switched to SlackBuild and it worked. No navigation problem anymore
Installed it, but can't get the spell checker to work.
Anyone an idea?
I had the same problem, but, then I remembered I chose #upgradepkg to install OO 3.0 moving up from OO 2.4. So I took a guess, removed the 3.0 installation and then chose #installpkg. Dictionary works now.
Edit: Added later. I also ended up going into the OO extension manager and downloading the Canadian language pack for OO. All is good now.
Can someone with MS's "Time New Roman" font installed do me a favour and check if their openoffice install has the same problem as mine?
Go to "Insert Symbol", choose "Times New Roman" and then see if the "Basic Arabic" subset exists. It's not just Arabic which is missing -- all non-Latin character sets besides Cyrillic and Greek can't be used in OO but may be seen in KCharSelect or used in KOffice etc.
This one has been puzzling me since I started using Slackware.
I had the same problem, but, then I remembered I chose #upgradepkg to install OO 3.0 moving up from OO 2.4. So I took a guess, removed the 3.0 installation and then chose #installpkg. Dictionary works now.
Edit: Added later. I also ended up going into the OO extension manager and downloading the Canadian language pack for OO. All is good now.
I used upgradepkg as well.
So, removed OOo and installed it again with installpkg.
Installed the lang pack via the extensions manager (which shouldn't be necessary because I used the Dutch.OOo version).
No change...
BTW: installed OOo via the build script from SlackBuilds.org.
There is a sudirectory named ooo and inside it there are the dictionary files. You can copy it from your OO2 installation (/opt/openoffice.org2.x/share/dict/ooo)
There is a sudirectory named ooo and inside it there are the dictionary files. You can copy it from your OO2 installation (/opt/openoffice.org2.x/share/dict/ooo)
OK, removed OOo 3 and installed 2.4 again and yes, the dict dir. is there and the spellchecker works (as it always did).
Made a back-up of dict and installed OOo 3 again, put dict in the appropriate dir in /opt/ but still no spell checker.
How is that possible?
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