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| 1425536 | 2016-09-13 09:23:00 | Sorry, my mistake. It wasn't installed here and it's not a command line tool (nice gui interface). | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425537 | 2016-09-13 10:40:00 | No need to reinstall, you can change the desktop environment, or even convert from Mint to Kubuntu if you want. www.tecmint.com www.howtogeek.com The screen-shot shows the Kubuntu option in Mint 18 synaptic. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1425538 | 2016-09-13 22:17:00 | I would install pavucontrol (pulseaudio volume control). To try and sort the microphone out. Right again Kame, installed pavucontrol as you suggested and the Microphone is now working perfectly. :thumbs: Thanks to Rod and Dave too for their help in getting it installed via Synaptic. I also have a Kabuntu disk to play with. Struth, that took 4 hours to download the 1.6 Gig and I don’t think I can blame Vodafone. :D So, over that hurdle and next hurdle in sight. How do we coax Mint to view Flash files? :confused: Whilst it might be going out of fashion there is still an awful lot of sites using it. :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425539 | 2016-09-13 22:19:00 | I remember ReactOS, back around the year 2000 when it was "based" off imitating Windows NT4. Fun times... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1425540 | 2016-09-13 23:21:00 | Flash ... yuck! :groan: I refuse to install Flash because of Adobe's attitude towards Linux (Flash has been stuck at v11 for years because Adobe dropped Linux support and it's a colander for security issues). I've been using HTML5 quite happily in Firefox for a couple of years now. If I strike a site using Flash only I'll either not bother with it or fire up Chrome which has it's own version of Flash to view the site. Here in Min 17.2 Flash is installed by default I think. Not sure why it would not be installed in your Mint. Go here to test it: www.adobe.com |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425541 | 2016-09-13 23:32:00 | Well this would take the cake . Having inquired as to how to get Flash working, a pop-up appeared saying I had updates for Flash . Pure coincidence? :confused: Anyway, I installed them and tested on a site that required flash and wouldn’t work previously . Viola, it works . But the Internet is running like a dog and here’s my new speedtests . 7429 Tried speedtest on my laptop and the Internet speed is normal . So the only conclusion I can come to is the Flash Update/Installation has stuffed something . What now, can the update be rolled back? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425542 | 2016-09-14 02:15:00 | Well while scratching my head about what exactly Flash has done to the Internet I thought I would have a little play with Libre 5. First up the Spell Check in the writer doesn’t work. :rolleyes: Looking up the problem on Google indicated it rarely worked, and the fixes were many and varied, so has anyone here struck, and better still, fixed the problem? Character building stuff this Linux. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1425543 | 2016-09-14 02:42:00 | When you say spell checking isn't working, do you mean not working at all or just the language is wrong? I usually have to install another dictionary to get NZ spelling working right. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425544 | 2016-09-14 03:15:00 | You can download a New Zealand dictionary/thesaurus from here: extensions.libreoffice.org This shows how to install the downloaded dictionary: www.libreoffice.org |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1425545 | 2016-09-14 03:23:00 | Well it’s working now, but I’m not sure how I fixed it. In the first instance I don’t think there was a Dictionary of any sort loaded in spite of being given the choice. So I downloaded the NZ one and still nothing. Anyway, I turned the machine off whilst I did a couple of other chores and when I came back I noticed I now had a Thesaurus. Checked and it worked so tried Spelling and it worked too. I’m thinking they both loaded when I restarted the Computer but that is purely a guess. Anyway another hurdle successfully negotiated somehow. :D PS Posts crossed. Yep that is where I got it from. |
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