Re: Problem displaying Abiword help on Linux

AbiWord tries to use a web browser to access its
online help. If you have AbiWord-gnome installed, it
will use Gnome's default browser (i.e. whatever you
configure in Gnome's Control Center). If you're not
running AbiWord-gnome, we go through a list of
browsers and try to run the first one that we find.
But before we do that, we query the environment
variable "BROWSER" (a few other projects do this hack
too) and if that's present, use whatever browser that
specifies.

So, I strongly recommend using AbiWord-gnome. Absent
that, I strongly recommend setting the BROWSER
environment variable in some init script if you care
about what browser is running. Absent that, I'd get in
touch with your distro's representatives, because the
package of Galeon that they ship appears to be broken.

Best,
Dom

--- Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > Tom Williams wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I'm running Abiword 2.2.3 on Linux and when I
> tried to get help (I
> >> would click "Help/Help Contents") nothing
> happened. So, I ran Abiword
> >> from a shell window and discovered it wanted
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to be
> >> set. So, I set it to where I have Mozilla 1.7.5
> installed
> >> (/usr/local/mozilla) and re-ran Abiword. This
> time when I try to get
> >> help, I get these messages:
> >>
> >> ** WARNING **: error opening
> /usr/local/mozilla/defaults/pref/all.js:
> >> No such file or directory
> >>
> >> ** WARNING **: compiled MOZILLA_VERSION (0.9.1)
> != detected
> >> mozilla_version (0.0.0)
> >> /opt/gnome/bin/galeon-bin: symbol lookup error:
> >> /opt/gnome/bin/galeon-bin: undefined symbol:
> >> begin_assignment__13nsCOMPtr_base
> >
> >
> > This is not an AbiWord issue, but Mozilla/Galeon
> issue....
> >
> >
> > Hub
> >
>
> Ok, does Abiword try to use Mozilla to display its
> online help? Of course,
> Mozilla 1.7.5 runs just fine when I run it so I'm
> not sure how or why Galeon is
> even involved at all.
>
> I'll poke around and see what I can figure out.
>
> Peace...
>
> Tom
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Received on Fri Feb 18 20:18:01 2005