Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080620 20:49]: > In GNOME Dictionary Preferences, what dict server is it looking at? edit -> preferences -> source = localhost But no specifics are displayed. The only way I have found to view or add details is to click the "+add" button, whereupon the "add dic

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 20:13, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have complied with all the recommendations posted in this thread > thus far, but Dictionary 2.14.0 still is going out to the web > (dict.org ?) for definitions. I know that this is so, because my DSL > s

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have complied with all the recommendations posted in this thread thus far, but Dictionary 2.14.0 still is going out to the web (dict.org ?) for definitions. I know that this is so, because my DSL service went out a night or two ago, and I could not retrieve definitions. Is there a reliable "off

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-20 Thread Jose Rodriguez
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:18:01 +0200 Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following in /etc/dictd/dict.conf: > > server localhost > server dict.org > server dict0.us.dict.org > server alt0.dict.org I have the same only that I commented everything but localhost--I always work offlin

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-17 Thread Johann Spies
> Thanks again, but both nmap and ps show the daemon to be running. > > /var/log/daemon.log shows nothing regarding dictd. > > It appears to me that the user interface of Dictionary 2.14.0 is in > need of repair. Try the commandline: 'dict rtm' or or something like that. I have the followin

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 02:00]: > > Perhaps dictd is not running? How can I check to see? > > 'sudo nmap localhost' on my PC shows inter alia: > > 2628/tcp open dict > > or > > ~$ ps aux | grep [d]ict > dictd 4929 0.0 0.2 95752 4276 ?Ss Jun02 0:00 dictd

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:15:02AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 01:00]: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a > > > dictionary which may be used off-l

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 01:00]: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a > > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost > > rather than to dict.org ? > > > > T

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

2008-06-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost > rather than to dict.org ? > > The man pages for dict and dictd don't appear to discuss off-lin