Re: [newbie] Open Office
I have never used Open Office but here are some basics that it sounds like you need First I am going to assume that you are using KDE due to the fact that it is very newbie friendly. On the bottom of the screen near the left corner you should see a icon that looks like a monitor with a thing in front of it that looks kind of like a sea shell, click on it . you should now have a black screen covering about 2/3 of the desktop, you are now in a console. anything that you type on the keyboard will appear in the console. the text that appears there is the command line. Not to bad so far? Sooner or latter , probably sooner you will find that you will need to su to root, thats about the most common thing that needs to be done in a console this is how you su to root. After opening the console just type su root and press enter you will be asked for a password, type in your root password. CONGRATULATIONS you have just became a super user IE a regular user with root privileges. You will have root privileges until you close the console. when you close the console you will no longer have those root privileges until the next time you su to root. OK those were the quick console and command line basics. I hope that kind of pointed you in the correct direction for console and command line stuff. The rest otta kind of fall into place as you go but it's a good Idea to keep a reference with basic commands laying around near the computer not that you will need it all that often if you prefer to do most things with a GUI but sooner or latter you will need it. On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:14 pm, DrewMartin wrote: > Hi all, >Would it be possible for some to tell me how to do this > step by step?I'm a complete newbie,and did not expect to be using > consoles and command lines quite yet. > Thank you all for your time and patience,with some one > who one brain cell is still recovering from the chaos that was > the 80's/early90's rock/metal movement,and who is now killing it > with Single Malt Scotch > > Drew - Original Message - > From: "Warren Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:28 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Open Office > > El lun, 26-05-2003 a las 10:41, DrewMartin escribió: > > When try to use Open Office the splash screen comes up,then > > nothing happens > > If you're using Gnome, perhaps the session manager is timing out > before OO can open. Here's what I posted to the list last year on > the subject: > > ---snip--- > > De: Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > A: Newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED > Fecha: 04 Dec 2002 13:20:57 -0600 > > El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. > > But now > > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while > > opening > > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down.. > > Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. The solution is to edit the > OOo startup script (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice) and > add this line: > > unset SESSION_MANAGER > > That fixes it. Gory details at: > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer with Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office
Hi all, Would it be possible for some to tell me how to do this step by step?I'm a complete newbie,and did not expect to be using consoles and command lines quite yet. Thank you all for your time and patience,with some one who one brain cell is still recovering from the chaos that was the 80's/early90's rock/metal movement,and who is now killing it with Single Malt Scotch Drew - Original Message - From: "Warren Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Open Office El lun, 26-05-2003 a las 10:41, DrewMartin escribió: > When try to use Open Office the splash screen comes up,then nothing > happens If you're using Gnome, perhaps the session manager is timing out before OO can open. Here's what I posted to the list last year on the subject: ---snip--- De: Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Responder a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Asunto: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED Fecha: 04 Dec 2002 13:20:57 -0600 El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribió: > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. But > now > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while > opening > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down.. Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. The solution is to edit the OOo startup script (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice) and add this line: unset SESSION_MANAGER That fixes it. Gory details at: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0.1 Help
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 3:44 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote: > > Hi, Colin. I found that the help files were not installed by default. > > Use Install Software, choose All Files Alphabetically, and scroll down > > until you find the file. I can't remember its name, but it's fairly > > obvious. > > > > By the way, it would be helpful if you could turn off html. Many of us > > don't display it, and some can't read your posts at all with it on. > > > > Anne > > Or you could use the command line (more elegant of course): > "urpmi openoffice.org-help-en" > > Sascha > Both will give you the same result Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0.1 Help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 06:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 10 Jan 2003 11:43 am, Colin McElhatton wrote: > > Hi, > > Going through Open Office I could not help noticing that it seems that > > help files where not installed during installation. Am I missing some > > files here, or does Open Office come without help? Can I obtian them from > > somewhere and if I can, how would I go about installing this help? > > Thanks a million in advance! > > Colin McElhatton AIMIS > > email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ICQ#: 3012406 > > Mob: 79262628 > > Hi, Colin. I found that the help files were not installed by default. Use > Install Software, choose All Files Alphabetically, and scroll down until > you find the file. I can't remember its name, but it's fairly obvious. > > By the way, it would be helpful if you could turn off html. Many of us > don't display it, and some can't read your posts at all with it on. > > Anne Or you could use the command line (more elegant of course): "urpmi openoffice.org-help-en" Sascha - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+HuphgzJdfX+cTW8RAk4fAKCmbmQFxkyh2L1cbymp4mdl8/dgNwCgrfej r3FBlNqDInmcmqCdomLIny8= =h0AD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0.1 Help
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 11:43 am, Colin McElhatton wrote: > Hi, > Going through Open Office I could not help noticing that it seems that > help files where not installed during installation. Am I missing some files > here, or does Open Office come without help? Can I obtian them from > somewhere and if I can, how would I go about installing this help? > Thanks a million in advance! > Colin McElhatton AIMIS > email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ#: 3012406 > Mob: 79262628 Hi, Colin. I found that the help files were not installed by default. Use Install Software, choose All Files Alphabetically, and scroll down until you find the file. I can't remember its name, but it's fairly obvious. By the way, it would be helpful if you could turn off html. Many of us don't display it, and some can't read your posts at all with it on. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office 1.0.1 Help
Hi, Going through Open Office I could not help noticing that it seems that help files where not installed during installation. Am I missing some files here, or does Open Office come without help? Can I obtian them from somewhere and if I can, how would I go about installing this help? Thanks a million in advance! Colin McElhatton AIMIS email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 3012406 Mob: 79262628 -- ___ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com Meet Singles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
tor 2002-10-03 klockan 16.43 skrev Damian G: > Actually it refers to both. that poster claimed that changing > the printing setup improved the display on the screen. Yes, I just had a look at the archive as well. > you might want to give it a try... I did, it worked. Weird. Thanks for the help Damian, this was sort of very important .-) Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
On 03 Oct 2002 18:34:06 +0200 Bo Rosén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tor 2002-10-03 klockan 14.43 skrev Damian G: > > Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this. This seems to refer to the > fonts as printed, not on-screen which is my problem. I'll look at the > archives for the expert list though. > > Thanks, > Bo Actually it refers to both. that poster claimed that changing the printing setup improved the display on the screen. you might want to give it a try... HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
tor 2002-10-03 klockan 14.43 skrev Damian G: Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this. This seems to refer to the fonts as printed, not on-screen which is my problem. I'll look at the archives for the expert list though. Thanks, Bo > this was solved in the expert list days ago. > this is the last part of the thread: > > --- > Well, this was not the problem, as all fonts was mashed together. > But I managed to solve the problem myself, og just wants to tell you about it > should you enconter the problem. > It seems that OO does not handle printer-resolutions which are not X times X, > ex. 300x300 DPI. My printer (Brother laser 1470N) has a max-resolution of > 1200x600 and this caused OO to distribute 50% too little space for each > character, spacey!!! Any "homegenous" resolution (I chose 600x600) works just > fine! Wierd, but it solved the problem! > > > Best regards! > Morten Poulsen > > --- > > > HTH > > Damian > > -- > boot into windows? > what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts
On 03 Oct 2002 12:57:20 +0200 Bo Rosén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing (clean install) Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with fonts > in OO. I'm using the same old .ttf fonts from Windows. I imported them > with darkfont during installation which failed to make them available to > OO so I used spadmin in my ~/.openoffice directory. Nothing strange > here, I've done it several times before. > > But the fonts look squashed, they seem to overlap making the text > illegible, this is true for both old and new documents in both native > and *.doc format. Anyone else having the same problem? > > Cheers, > Bo this was solved in the expert list days ago. this is the last part of the thread: --- Well, this was not the problem, as all fonts was mashed together. But I managed to solve the problem myself, og just wants to tell you about it should you enconter the problem. It seems that OO does not handle printer-resolutions which are not X times X, ex. 300x300 DPI. My printer (Brother laser 1470N) has a max-resolution of 1200x600 and this caused OO to distribute 50% too little space for each character, spacey!!! Any "homegenous" resolution (I chose 600x600) works just fine! Wierd, but it solved the problem! Best regards! Morten Poulsen --- HTH Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office and fonts
After installing (clean install) Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with fonts in OO. I'm using the same old .ttf fonts from Windows. I imported them with darkfont during installation which failed to make them available to OO so I used spadmin in my ~/.openoffice directory. Nothing strange here, I've done it several times before. But the fonts look squashed, they seem to overlap making the text illegible, this is true for both old and new documents in both native and *.doc format. Anyone else having the same problem? Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:54, babalas wrote: > Hi there, > I tried installing Open Office. The installation stops and gives me the > message that the drive is out of space. I know that there is no shortage > of space on the drive.Has anyone run into this problem before? Thanks in > advance. > > babalas > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Never mind - Stupid me - The directory that I installed to didn't have enough room. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office
Hi there, I tried installing Open Office. The installation stops and gives me the message that the drive is out of space. I know that there is no shortage of space on the drive.Has anyone run into this problem before? Thanks in advance. babalas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0 Printing problem
On Thursday 30 May 2002 2:21 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: > Is anyone having printing problems with OO1.0. I can print out of every > other app but nothing comes out of OO. I have set the printers up and it > will see the printers I have set up under the cups print system but > nothing is queued up even though it acts like it is printing properly. > > Roly Try using a different font. I had that issue with the Ooffice647D (?) provided with Mandrake 8.2. Depending on the font I used the job would go to the printer and then fail. (Try looking at the print job manager at http://localhost:631 to confirm the jobs are going to the printer) Since I moved to Ooffice1.0 (compiled by ranger http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2139 ) I have not had a problem. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office 1.0 Printing problem
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 23:21, Roland Hughes wrote: > Is anyone having printing problems with OO1.0. I can print out of every > other app but nothing comes out of OO. I have set the printers up and it > will see the printers I have set up under the cups print system but > nothing is queued up even though it acts like it is printing properly. > > Roly > Have you run spadmin? Have a look at the default printer there and the commands it is using to direct output to it. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office 1.0 Printing problem
Is anyone having printing problems with OO1.0. I can print out of every other app but nothing comes out of OO. I have set the printers up and it will see the printers I have set up under the cups print system but nothing is queued up even though it acts like it is printing properly. Roly -- "The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux!" Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2
On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and > decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz > which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ > > The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and > Javascript found, which I took to mean it didn't know where to find > them,and since there are a lot of folders and directories with java > in their title I chose not to provide info where it could find > them,perhaps someone could suggest exactly which directory/folder I > should tell it to go and look for. > > Now of course I need to create a subsection in Kstart-Office and some > symlinks to the apps, I believe i know how to do that, my problem is > I don't know where exactly the apps are , and indeed what they are > called. > > So if any of you more accomplished OO1 users can point me at either > the right java settlings, and / or , the apps location please do > enlighten me. The OO setup is poor and does only a fraction of what's needed with KDE :( There are a lot of files and folders with 'java' in their name which haven't got anything to do with the Java runtime environment. which is what you need. If you've installed it the most likely place is: /usr/lib//bin Type 'locate java*' from the command line; that should return a whole screed of files and, if there are two named: /usr/lib//bin/java /usr/lib//bin/java_vm your Java runtime environment is there. If they aren't present you haven't installed Java before, the best thing to do is to download the Java runtime environment from Sun at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html (the 'Linux Red Hat RPM shell script'). Downloading and installing should put the Java runtime environment in: /usr/lib/jre_1.4.0/bin If you install OO to (I used /opt/openoffice) the executable files are in: /program and have cryptic names such as 'swriter', 'simpress' and so on. Icons are buried deep in: /share/kde/net/mimelink/share/icons Below that there are various icon sets (32x32 and 48x48 pixels, high colour and 256 colours). If you don't want to create shortcuts yourself you can drag precast '*.desktop' shortcut files from /share/kde/net/applnk/OpenOffice.org 1.0 to the desktop, but you'll have to add the appropriate icon yourself anyway (right mouse button on the '?' icon when it's on the desktop then select Properties ...). Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2
I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and Javascript found, which I took to mean it didn't know where to find them,and since there are a lot of folders and directories with java in their title I chose not to provide info where it could find them,perhaps someone could suggest exactly which directory/folder I should tell it to go and look for. Now of course I need to create a subsection in Kstart-Office and some symlinks to the apps, I believe i know how to do that, my problem is I don't know where exactly the apps are , and indeed what they are called. So if any of you more accomplished OO1 users can point me at either the right java settlings, and / or , the apps location please do enlighten me. thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
