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First prize.....
28-06-2009 5:53 PM
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I sometimes do online jigsaw puzzles that need Java so have installed the Iced Tea plug in and it works OK.
However, when I then try to search for anything in Google, the word is entered backwards e.g. Plusnet becomes tensulp. If I close down Firefox and try to reopen there is a box that says that FF is currently open and can't open another instance of it. I reboot and all is OK.
It's not a big deal really as I can leave the puzzle until before I switch off anyway but I wondered if anyone had any brainwaves as to the cause (and cure)?
Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 6:25 PM
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This http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parent seems to describe your problem ...
I'm not sure it gives a solution though!!
Edit: but this looks like a possible solution http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2009/01/ ( at the end of th post )
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Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 7:49 PM
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Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 8:03 PM
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Just got an email with a link to Full Circle - issue 26 now out so am having a little read to see if I can understand any of it.
Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 8:20 PM
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Quote from: poppy It's not a big deal really as I can leave the puzzle until before I switch off anyway but I wondered if anyone had any brainwaves as to the cause (and cure)?
It appears to be an iced-tea bug
One solution would be to install the (non-free) Sun Java plug-in.
Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 8:27 PM
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Quote from: artificer you can use ctrl-alt-bkspce to refresh x, login again and start again from there.
AFAIK that's been disabled in the latest X Window releases (you need to edit xorg.conf to re-enable it).
Sounds like a good excuse for learning to use something like top or ps to identify the process & kill it.
Re: First prize.....
28-06-2009 8:39 PM
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BTW am still ploughing my way through the Full Circle and although you will probably know all about it, I thought that I would mention that there is a very good and explanatory article on using Sun Virtual Machine with Ubuntu. Tried before and didn't get the hang of it but this is so clear that I might have another go.
Re: First prize.....
29-06-2009 1:27 AM
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Closing all Firefox windows and re-opening them seemed to cure it for a while.
Since then there's been a couple of Firefox updates and I've moved on to Ubuntu 9.04.
Doesn't happen any more.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: First prize.....
29-06-2009 6:32 AM
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Re: First prize.....
29-06-2009 8:18 AM
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Soory about that link , you're right it doesnt work. I'm in the office now so havent got my browsing history to go back to.
The second link works though and seems to give useful information, I'll quote it to save you the trouble
Quote For some strange reason, yesterday Firefox decided that everything I typed was going to come out backwards. As a result, I now have a bookmark folder called siraloSnepO. I still don’t know how it happened. Closing Firefox only cured it temporarily. I knew it had to be something to do with BIDI support, but it certainly wasn’t obvious. Words were being constructed in reverse, but input was still coming from the left of the screen. In other applications, switching to right-to-left makes the cursor appear at the right of a textbox (I verified this in XChat). It seems to have stopped for the time being. I fiddled with some settings in about:config including bidi.support which I set to 3 (disable) which I think may have done the trick. Changing bidi.direction to 2 did have the effect of making text come from the right, so it wasn’t that.
I hope that has cured it. Otherwise, you might find you need a mirror to read my next blog…
Hope that helps
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Re: First prize.....
29-06-2009 12:17 PM
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I have a meta-package for Firefox where it says
Quote This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu.
Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for
this package in future.
Package version is 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 (Jaunty-Updates)
Firefox version is 3.0.11....
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Re: First prize.....
29-06-2009 1:12 PM
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Quote from: poppy This too is Ubuntu 9.04 so following your hint about Firefox updates, I checked mine and it is greyed out so I think that this might be the cause of the problem - it hasn't updated. I am therefore going to go away and study how to update it to see if that cures the problem.
Ubuntu has its own distribution of Firefox which is updated by updating Ubuntu. Hence there is no facility to check for updates in Firefox itself. This can mean that the latest available Firefox is a few days behind the latest available release from Mozilla.
It is possible to install a Linux version of Firefox directly from the Mozilla site and maintain it apart from Ubuntu.
Re: First prize.....
05-07-2009 4:04 PM
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Tried to update to 3.5 but after installing from the Ubuntu site references to it appear in the Synaptic Package Manager but the version in my browser is still 3.0.11 so will will have to wait until the thing updates itself. Next I uninstalled Iced Tea and installed JavaSE6. Fingers crossed but it seems to be OK at the moment.
Where I am getting into a tizwas is installing something like a new version of Firefox. I had thought that if it was Windows I would uninstall, clean up, reboot and reinstall but it seems so difficult in Linux.
Am OK with Add/Remove of course because everything is there in the repository. Also managed to install Cairo Dock on both Mint and Ubuntu which is a Mac look-alike and is pretty nifty. Followed instructions and used the Terminal. Only problem is I have to activate it at each session - doesn't come up when you boot the computer so don't know if there is much that can be done about that - will have to take a deeper delve into the settings.
The other glitch that I have in my Mint installation is the 'Could Not Grab Mouse' one which is also fairly common. I can get out of it by clicking on Package Manger and then anywhere on the desktop but it is pretty annoying because it happens at least once in every session. Can't find a permanent cure after researching it.
Oh the joys of Linux! (Am not giving up though).
Re: First prize.....
05-07-2009 4:51 PM
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WRT Cairo dock, I don't use that but Avant Window Manger (similar but prettier :D) if you want to auto load it at startup, click on Preferences, Startup Manager and add it there, it will then load on startup.
Not come across the 'Could Not Grab Mouse' issue what is that?
Re: First prize.....
05-07-2009 6:13 PM
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The synaptic manager is a bit more complicated especially when you come to remove something and you can't because of dependencies. Anyway, that isn't a problem now as the Ubuntu glitch seems to have gone away. Not done a .deb or shell download/installation so that is for another time.
Found the start up for Cairo Dock - right-clicked and the option was there.
The 'Could not grab mouse' glitch is due to the synaptic manager thinking it is running or some such thing. The message is that mouse can't be grabbed as there may be a malicious eavesdropper. It goes way back to earlier incarnations of Mint ASFAIK.
It happened again just now when I clicked on synaptic to take a look. I then have to click anywhere on the desktop, the password prompt box comes up, I enter it and that removes the problem (until the next time).
The solutions on the Mint forum do not seem to tell me how to get rid of it altogether.
Have added the Avant Window Manager (I think) and am now going to have a look.
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