Re: [Evolution] evolution spelling won't work - but I have all the libraries (I think).

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Help! I am a horrible speller and would love to get spell checking
> enabled in Evolution.  I am currently running XD2 on Redhat 9.  In
> Tools -> Settings -> Composer Preferences -> Spell Checking there are
> no languages for me to enable.  The "Enable" button is greyed out.  
>
> If I type "rpm -qa | grep spell | sort", I get:
[...]

> aspell-0.50.4.1-0.ximian.6.1
> aspell-en-0.51.0-0.ximian.6.1
> gnome-spell1.0-1.0.5-0.ximian.6.1

Looks good. Should work. ;)

Well, I came across a similar issue some days ago. You might want to try
it.


To check if spell checking works at all and the issue is your user
settings, create a new user on your machine. Log in as this user and
check if that user can spell check. A fake account with no valid server
settings should do. Try if you can enable spell checking for that
account.

The mentioned issue IIRC [1] was some wrong GConf settings. If spell
checking works for the test user, try removing (or *moving* for backup
purposes) the file
 ~/.gconf/GNOME/Spell/%gconf.xml

Start Evolution after that and try to enable spell checking. HTH

...guenther


[1]  I am sorry, my memory just seems to be lousy...


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}