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Okie
01-31-2002, 10:21 PM
has anyone had problems typing words in AbiWord in Slackware???

it does respond to some keyboard commands like CTRL & p launches the print command and a few others like enter goes to the next like & the space bar works too, but it wont respond to typed letters...

:confused:

sledge_hmr
01-31-2002, 10:24 PM
:eek: This sounds quite serious. My computer has Slackware 8.0 and I was planning on checking out AbiWord, but now maybe I'll hold off. Sorry I can't be of any help.

Okie
01-31-2002, 10:41 PM
it can not be serous, i bet it is something like a script or something that was incorrectly written with the wrong direction or not pointing to where the fonts are...

the program launches niecly, and it has a good GUI...

all my other text editing software works like Gedit, Gnotepad+, emacs Gnumeric spreadsheet, so it cant be too serous...

Okie
02-02-2002, 08:48 PM
Bump:

anybody got an idea, what this could be???

vee-eye
02-02-2002, 10:38 PM
Have you tried reinstalling? Try building it from source if you used a package manager.

Okie
02-03-2002, 09:08 AM
even the version of AbiWord that was included with Slackware8 was broken, i got that latest .tgz from Linuxpackages.net and installing it still did not fix it...

if i dont get it fixed soon i guess i will have to be satisfied with gedit (lol)...

mdwatts
02-03-2002, 12:01 PM
Anything at the AbiWord support site on this or something in the included documentation that may indicate what needs to be done to fix the problem?

How about the preferences/settings for such things as fonts or fontpaths?

Does AbiWord have it's own font package that needs to be installed?

TacKat
02-03-2002, 12:05 PM
Does AbiWord have a mailing list? You should send something to them.

Okie
02-03-2002, 02:55 PM
what would i send them???

a bug report???

offically AbiWord is still a 0.9 beta app so i doubt i would get a reply, but sending them something can not hurt...

ok, off to write a bug report...