On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 21:54:46 +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Earlier T o n g wrote: > >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking > >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly > >> installed lenny. > >> > >> How can I get it back? > > > > Did you check if it is activated? > > > > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing > Check my spelling > > as I type > > Thanks for the hint. Hmm... It's there, checked & activated. > > Anything else to check? (I have the libgtkspell0 installed).
AFAIK, libxul (the Gecko rendering engine library) uses libhunspell for the spell checking. You can check if your libxul finds libhunspell: $ ldd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so | grep spell libhunspell-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0 (0x00007fb746616000) I have libhunspell-1.2-0 version 1.2.6-1. Do you have upstream Openoffice packages installed by any chance? AFAIK, they bring along their own version of libhunspell, which can screw things up for iceweasel. > > (Spell checking works for me with iceweasel 3.0.3-2 on Sid/amd64.) > > I'm using 3.0.1-1 on lenny. It works before so the version should not be > a problem. Try to run iceweasel from a xterm with "-safe-mode" to make sure that the problem is not caused by a broken add-on. Running from xterm might produce a helpful error message. By the way, I tested the spell checking with the input fields of http://babelfish.yahoo.com/. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]