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February 23rd, 2005, 12:54 PM
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| OpenOffice in X11 doesn't work well. Blech. It's horrible and copy pasting from other Mac apps just don't work correctly. Have a look at NeoOffice/J, which is the port of OpenOffice to use Java as a GUI. It runs faster than X11 and is more well integrated into OS X.  |
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May 31st, 2005, 01:55 PM
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| My gkrellm complains about fonts Hi, I've installed gkrellm with 'fink'. The gkrellmd starts correctly, but gkrellm complains about 'no fonts found' and directs me to edit fonts.conf and check the fontconfig tool. I'm stopped here... Anybody had this problem? I'm running MacOSX 10.4.1, X11 4.4.0 (apple), Xcode 2.0, fink 0.24.6 and gkrellm 2.2.5 (compiled successfully). Thanks in advance, Ijo |
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#29
November 19th, 2005, 05:37 AM
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| I'm coming from using Linux full-time at work and home, so I do miss a number of apps, including a few that I wrote in Perl-Gtk2. To use those, I've been ssh'ing to my Linux box and opening them on here. Seems to work well enough, aside from things like tray icons, of course. Gimp has come a long way; even the interface is nice these days. I'm not sure if the version I have on OS X is as recent as what is out there on Linux. I haven't really played with it much yet on here. I think using Fink is a good idea for anyone. Not only does it save you the worries of gathering all the necessary libraries for compiling source, but also, it's kind of like "Software Update" for your X11 software, assuming it works as apt and yum do, which I do believe it does. As new versions of a program come out, you can easily upgrade them via Fink. At work, most everything we install is an rpm via yum; we also make our own rpm's for our in-house software. They make it so much easier to distribute applications to the end users. OpenOffice...I love what it is and what it stands for, but man, that is one memory-hogging app. Even at work I despise using it. Still, it beats paying Billy Boy the big bucks for Office. One of these days they're going to get it right too. Abiword is great if you just need a word processor; nice interface, good features, lightweight. I haven't compared it to Text Edit though. Evolution -- I wish this one was out there for the Mac. I'd be using it right now. My only complaints are that it still crashes occassionally, and the import/export ability is total crap compared to Thunderbird and even Outlook (did I say Outlook?!?). Keep an eye open for Thunderbird getting a fully-integrated calendar. They're working on that at Mozilla...I think. I always thought Gaim was the best IM app out there...not so sure now that I've seen Adium a little. ethereal -- not really my thing, but a very good tool. mplayer -- I haven't tried this yet on OS X. That thing plays everything though. I probably couldn't have used Linux at home without it. Oh yeah -- don't use the built-in Mac terminal. If you customize xterm, it looks and works much better. iTerm too for that matter. Also, if anyone sees mrxvt (tabbed version of rxvt) out there for OS X, please let me know! Dale |
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November 25th, 2005, 02:11 PM
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| Now I have 3 apps under X11: OOo (Office like) The Gimp (Photoshop like) Inkscape (Illustrator like)
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December 24th, 2005, 10:15 AM
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| I downloaded Aqua Scribus and Open Office, but haven't done much with them, because what I tried was unsuccessful. I used a MS Publisher file I had made and saved in my PC as a postscript file because I wanted to make it into a pdf file. I put it in my powerbook and tried to open it in Scribus. I could only see the first page which frustrated me. I thought maybe I could see if it was all there in Preview and to my delight it was not only all there, but automatically changed to pdf! I had had my powerbook a year and had hardly used it (too busy on the PC), but this experience won me over and I have used the Mac a lot more since then. I also wanted to use those "powerful data base tools" in Open Office but have not found any way to get a data base in it without deleting the book data base it seems to have; that looks like it would be nice to use. Also rewriting a data base in order to have it on my Mac is not very appealing. I have a file in MS Access which I would love to get in there. I tried copying it in the PC, to Excell, thinking I could get it in that way but have found no way to do it. (I also don't have my email addresses on this machine because I haven't gotten around to doing that Address Book! I'd like an easier way to bring in my PC email directory from Thunderbird.) I read a guide on Access, but don't need such a powerful COMPLICATED data base. Actually what I really want is a data base like the old AppleWorks from the Apple II days! |
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#32
December 24th, 2005, 08:06 PM
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| AppleWorks is still around and, I think, still being sold. Unfortunately, it's really showing its age, according to what I've read. I haven't had problems with it in OS X, but others have. Doug
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