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?
thanks
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10-14-2008, 05:02 PM
Florian Kulzer
On the fly spell checking in firefox
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:21:59 +0000, T o n g wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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
(Spell checking works for me with iceweasel 3.0.3-2 on Sid/amd64.)
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10-14-2008, 09:54 PM
T o n g
On the fly spell checking in firefox
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer 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).
> (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.
please help. thanks
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10-15-2008, 05:58 PM
Florian Kulzer
On the fly spell checking in firefox
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:
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/.
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10-16-2008, 04:24 AM
T o n g
On the fly spell checking in firefox
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:58:49 +0200, Florian Kulzer 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.
>
> 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.
No, I don't have Openoffice, and libxul can find libhunspell:
>> > (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.
Yeah, good point. Just tried that, but symptom is the same and no helpful
error messages. Just a Gtk-WARNING of a theme engine not found, which is
what I always get.
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10-16-2008, 02:03 PM
Sam Leon
On the fly spell checking in firefox
T o n g wrote:
Hi,
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.
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10-16-2008, 07:20 PM
T o n g
On the fly spell checking in firefox
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:03:41 -0500, Sam Leon 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?
> Install hunspell and a laungauge pack:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=myspell-
&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
>
> (myspell-en-us for american english)
BINGO!
myspell "is currently used within OpenOffice.org and the mozilla
spellchecker".
installing it alone without hunspell solved the problem.
THANKS!
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