Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-08 Thread das দাশ
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 01:09 +0530, Ravi Shanker wrote: 3. recompile mozilla firefox with little HACK not to share the common comtainer Can some configure options be given like that? This is quite interesting. Never tried that. 5. Make multiple user account on computer, say user1, user2,

Re: [ilugd] [off-topic] UPS catches fire

2007-09-06 Thread das দাশ
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:12 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: i have a 15 year old ups that stopped working about 5 years ago - can anyone advise me on how to get it to work again? In 'Armageddon' (or maybe 'Deep Impact' or something else) one Russian astro-scientist suggested something like,

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-29 Thread das দাশ
Dear Friends I reported you problems of both Hindi and Bangla in OOo in Ubuntu 7.04. As Bikas Rawal suggested, I downloaded the latest OOo 2.2.1 and did 'alien -i --scripts *.rpm', after 'apt-get --purge' on everything openoffice. And, really, as a pleasant surprise, all the problems were gone:

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-28 Thread das দাশ
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 11:16 +0530, G Karunakar wrote: I faced the same problem on Debian sarge.. for a long time could never get it fixed.. couldnt replicate it too! Ubuntu 6.04 did have similar issue but it used to work after doing the above steps. Try by setting locale also to Hindi (not

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:06 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: Can you show us the results of typing fc-list :lang=hi in a terminal? As I told you, because I could not be sure of what font OOo is using, I just selected the whole thing, and changed it to lohit-hindi. But, still the same problem was

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:06 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: Which Hindi keymap are you using? With SCIM? Oh, sorry, I forgot to reply that part. I am using the 'India' keyboard from the Keyboard Layout choice menu in System-Preference-Keyboard-Layout. -- das

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:53 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: I guess that gives you devanagari ISCII?? What is the result of pressing the following sequence - c + d + o + e (all lower case). Maybe you are a guardian angel: so much full of good fortune. I did your sequence, that gave me 'm-da' in

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:57 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Which version of OOo is this? 2.2.0-ubuntu3 (one or dictionary packages are different) Yes, the problems are entirely with OOo. No, the problem is not with the repository. This desktop, from where I am writing this mail, is in a daily

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 19:55 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: The suggested solution is to download openoffice rpms, use alien to create debs, and then install using dpkg. I think, I will something like this. But, earlier, I have seen that to worsen the situation, though that was for the compiled

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread das দাশ
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 00:31 +0530, G Karunakar wrote: try this Tools -Options - Language Settings | Languages enable CTL option here , also select Hindi as language for CTL (if its already set, the set something else then set it back). Quit openoffice and start it again, then

[ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-26 Thread das দাশ
Hello Friends I am facing a queer problem in Ubuntu 7.04 Hindi. I installed the keyboard layout and the Hindi fonts and all, as suggested by apt-get. Now, after, opening the OOo window, I can type the English or Bangla text quite normally. But, when writing Hindi, a peculiar problem is popping

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-26 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:38 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: And, uhhh, u does this happen in any other text editing application, like gedit? (no - not emacs or vi). I used Lohit Hindi. And let me try gedit and report it. ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-26 Thread das দাশ
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:38 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: And, uhhh, u does this happen in any other text editing application, like gedit? (no - not emacs or vi). In 'gedit' they are working properly. But, a new problem is coming there. In Hindi how do you conjoin? Like, say, I am

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Keyboard and Ubuntu

2007-08-16 Thread das দাশ
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:51 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: this 'indian' bug has been around in ubuntu for quite some time now - why dont the ubuntu fans do something about it? To be very frank, I also quite disliked it. But, then, a lot of FLOSS workers together did it for us: and tried

[ilugd] Hindi Keyboard and Ubuntu

2007-08-15 Thread das দাশ
Hello Friends For one of my Hindi-speaking colleagues in Calcutta I am installing Ubuntu. I am a regular user of the Bangla things in Ubuntu. What I do is that install the Bangla fonts and add a keyboard layout (in my case Probhat) from the System-Preference-Keyboard-Layout menu. But, in case of

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Keyboard and Ubuntu

2007-08-15 Thread das দাশ
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 21:21 +0530, Rakesh Pandit wrote: Try selecting India(You do not have to select from drop down options), add it and select it and reboot your X. It will work. :-) So many thanks friend. This worked after installing India as a whole, not any subgroup. And all the keyboard

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Keyboard and Ubuntu

2007-08-15 Thread das দাশ
Got the keyboard layout for Devnagari from the Net. So, all problems are solved. --- das ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives