Re: Re: Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 10/05/2012, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> Forgive me for being thick but how do I get the gb dictionary please? > > No problem, you need to install the myspell-en-gb package. > Then you need to restart LibreOffice before you can use it in the > auto-spellcheck. > > -- > Cheers, > Clive > Thanks f

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 10/05/2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/05/12 11:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 10/05/12 10:11, Whit Hansell wrote: >>> Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which >>> will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file >>> which is just too l

Datapacker

2012-05-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we correspond re my usage of it? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.5, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3

Re: Datapacker

2012-05-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/05/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:33:42AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Is, or has, anyone used Datapacker here please? If so can we >> correspond re my usage of it? > > I haven't used it, but I think it was I who originally recommended

Re: Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

2012-05-17 Thread Sharon Kimble
With help from the program creator I've succeeded in using datapacker, and now know that directory mentioned above will need three DVD's. The correct command is ;- datapacker -b ~/Music/irish_celtic_music_collection_version_2/%03d -s 4000m -a hardlink ~/Music/irish_celtic_music_collection_version_

Kmail woes!

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring problem for me! It separates each days emails and puts a horizontal grey bar between the days. For me I dislike it and want to remove it, but how please? I prefer the

Re: Kmail woes!

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 31 July 2011 09:32, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2011 1:19:44 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over >> other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring >> problem for me! It separates

Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
Whenever I install a program now with apt-get I get the following error message;- === Processing triggers for man-db ... No protocol specified frontend: cannot connect to X server :0 debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)

Re: Error message from apt-get installation

2011-07-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 31 July 2011 10:24, Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Whenever I install a program now with apt-get I get the following >> error message;- >> === >> Processing tr

Re: problem with konqueror surface

2011-08-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 13 August 2011 16:58, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi list, > > on my EEEPC somehow the text above the icons disappeared. I use a German > layout. I do not mean, the text belonging to the icons, but the complete line > above the icons "Datei" - "Bearbeiten" - "Gehe zu" . and so on. > > Can I fi

Re: disappeared hard disk space

2011-08-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16 August 2011 08:36, Simon Chen wrote: > Hi, all. > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. > But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. > Tri

Re: Debian balloons

2011-08-17 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 18 August 2011 00:46, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > First time I've noticed this: when I select www.debian.org, I get floating > balloons on the right side of the page. At the expense of extra CPU of > course. > Or is it a rootkit? > > Hugo > Where are you seeing this, i.e. what browser are

KMyMoney

2011-08-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm using KMyMoney 3.98.1 from the squeeze repo but would like to know if there is a more uptodate version in any other repo please? The currrent version on the KMyMoney site [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html is 4.6.0. Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/t

Re: KMyMoney

2011-08-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 28 August 2011 03:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Version 4.5.3 shows to be in Unstable right now. > > - Nate >> Thanks for this Nate. Is unstable wheezy please? and if so do i just change squeeze to wheezy in my /etc/apt/sources.list? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/

iceweasel and gmail

2011-09-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
On logging into gmail this morning on iceweasel i got the following message .. You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly. are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should i install a more updat

Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a 96 page pdf file that I need to convert to text in one run. I've imported it into inkscape but that only converts one page at a time. I've tried using pdftotext but i cant work out the syntax for that so am unable to test it out properly. I've tried pdfedit but that only works on one page

Re: Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 September 2011 07:03, Doug wrote: > On 09/22/2011 01:31 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I have a 96 page pdf file that I need to convert to text in one run. >> I've imported it into inkscape but that only converts one page at a >> time. I've tried us

Re: Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 September 2011 07:33, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/09/11 16:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 September 2011 07:03, Doug wrote: >>> On 09/22/2011 01:31 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> > > >>> -- >> Many thanks to all, I was able to do

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 September 2011 14:06, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not >>> support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to c

Re: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 29 September 2011 04:12, Chris wrote: > I did much the same but with my CD collection. > I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats including custom > bitrates also). > As to the hierarchy you mentioned, again using Sound Juicer, you can set the > destination, the sort order, the s

Re: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 29 September 2011 07:28, Chris wrote: > Try apt-get install sound-juicer Thanks for this, i'm downloading it now. Sharon > > Sent from my HTC. > > - Reply message ----- > From: "Sharon Kimble" > Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 12:24 am > Subject: Recomm

Re: XChat links to the Debian BTS

2011-10-05 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 5 October 2011 19:28, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hi everybody. > > Using XChat, is there a way to interpret #nn as a link to > http://bugs.debian.org/nn? As it is now, #nn is interpreted as > an IRC channel (Which pretty much always is wrong if n is a number), and > gives me the opt

Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?

2023-10-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe, and know how to access and copy files to and from since it moved over to it being mounted as an mtp device, please? As I'm getting desperate to copy files to it, that I want to read! Thanks for listening,

Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?

2023-10-03 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Eric S Fraga writes: > On Sunday, 1 Oct 2023 at 15:25, Joe wrote: >> Calibre converts/creates ebooks and is generally a useful accessory for >> a Kindle or other hardware reader. No, I'm not on commission. > > +1 for calibre! > > I use it for mana

No polkit authentication agent found

2023-10-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
is failing every time saying that 'No polkit authentication agent found'. Exactly what programs do I need to install please, so that I can burn the image onto the drive please? Thanks Sharon Kimble. - -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfa

Re: No polkit authentication agent found

2023-10-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Marco writes: > Am 12.10.2023 schrieb Sharon Kimble : > >> Exactly what programs do I need to install please, so that I can burn >> the image onto the drive please? > > Can you start > /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-g

Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY

2023-06-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi. With every back up, being whether its a restic backup hourly to another hard drive on this machine, or an rsync backup to my synology server, this error message continues to happen/occur. This has only started to occur since I've upgraded t

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