I've lost spell check in almost every application [SOLVED]

I'm not sure what just happened, but I no longer have spell checking capability in nearly anything. OpenOffice, Firefox, and LyX just to name a few. It still works in Gedit, so something is happening. I have both Aspell and Ispell installed. I have the OpenOffice spelling package installed. I didn't really change much. In fact, the only thing I changed was removed some "orphans" to find out one of them was necessary to web browsing (nss-mdns... possible bug report later). I reinstalled all of them to see if it helped.
And....
I also replaced my version of FF3 (firefox3-systemcairo) with the one in the repos, complete with the xulrunner update and such. Any connection here?
--EDIT--
OpenOffice was a fluke. It turns out that the development branch is the only one suffering from this. I could have sworn it worked, but it's working. I'm probably wrong here.
The others?
Last edited by skottish (2008-06-26 01:25:02)

fwojciec wrote:Yep -- 1.5.5. When I fired it up to check if the spellcheck was working a moment ago it wasn't... So I went into the preferences and played with the setting there, and after a bit of fiddling with it it started to work again. I can't tell you exactly what I did -- I just tried different options from the drop down menu in preferences and when, eventually, after receiving some error messages for ispell and so on, I reverted back to aspell it was working again.
I removed my .lyx file, and spell checking is sort of working. It's not exactly what it use to be, but it's doing something. I can spell fairly well, I just like to write freely without worrying too much about stuff; That's what proof reading is for.
Thanks fwojciec. Yet another bizarre set of coincidences "resolved".
---EDIT---
By the way, versionpkg works here:
# $Id: PKGBUILD 2008/02/24 19:13:58 skottish, modification of Jason Chu's Exp $
# Maintainer: skottish <MAIL STUFF>
pkgname=lyx-svn
pkgver=25391
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An advanced open-source document processor."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='http://www.lyx.org'
depends=('qt' 'tetex' 'python' 'perl' 'imagemagick' 'aspell' 'aiksaurus' 'boost')
source=()
md5sums=()
license=('GPL2')
provides=('lyx')
conflicts=('lyx')
_svntrunk=svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk
_svnmod=lyx-devel
build() {
cd $startdir/src
svn co $_svntrunk/ $_svnmod
cd $_svnmod
./autogen.sh &> /dev/null
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
Last edited by skottish (2008-09-28 04:13:11)

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