Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I want to add something to Chapter 1 of the Writer Guide about using
the Quickstarter under Linux (the chapter already has a section about
Quickstarter under Windows, from the time when Windows was the only OS
that supported the Quickstarter). I have not attempted yet to get this
to work on my Ubuntu (Gnome) system, and indeed I have no idea
(without doing some research) whether there are any differences
between Linuxes or KDE vs Gnome.
I would be grateful if someone else would do the research on this
topic and write up a draft, at least with the essential information in
it, so I don't have to. Or point me to where it is written up. I know
I have seen notes about this; I just don't recall where and really
don't have time to research it right now. Thank you for any assistance
you can give!
I'm still working on this, Jean. The Quickstarter (OOo 2.0.4) functions
correctly on my Intel systems, but doesn't on an AMD Athlon 64 running
an Intel 486 kernel. All these systems are running under Debian Etch
(testing) with Gnome presently.
I'll be installing KDE shortly and I'll try the Quickstarter there as well.
For any other distributions you'll have to look elsewhere, I'm afraid.
Not very helpful, but all I can offer at the moment.
Peter or anyone, can you point me to instructions on how to
enable the Quickstarter in Linux?
I'm using OOo2.1 (downloaded from OOo website) on Ubuntu 6.06
(Gnome desktop) on an Intel system. In Tools > Options >
OpenOffice.org > Memory, the checkbox for "Enable systray
quickstarter" is greyed out.
I'm personally not interested in having the quickstarter working
on my machine, so I've had no incentive to find out how to make
it work... other than being able to write about it!
--Jean
