Re: star office
Daniel Mashao <daniel@comgate.ee.uct.ac.za> writes:
> 1. Use the SVGA drivers instead of the S3 drivers for X11.
>
> 2. (The simplest) Define a variable in your start-up files eg. .tcshrc of
> .bashrc.
>
> setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true
>
> or
>
> export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true
>
> and everything will be fine. How do I know, because they mentioned this
> some where in their installation documentation and I too have an S3 Virge
> card.
Daniel,
I read somewhere that using that fix caused problems with other programs.
Have you seen this?
> You will love this Star Office its faster and better than 4.0 and now I
> feel like I want to buy a copy. With 4.0 I felt like it was so useless I
> was glad I did not cough up some money for it, but I am going to buy the
> Windows version just so I can get my hand on their manuals.
Hmm. I bought the CD set because I didn't want to try that huge download
on my phone line. I must say I was totally underwhelmed by their manual.
I would say if you're already pretty comfortable with SO5 and your're
thinking of spending the money just to get the manuals, you will probably
be disappointed.
--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
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