Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > $ dpkg -l | grep chm > > ii kchmviewer 3.1-1 CHM viewer for KDE > ii libchm-bin 2:0.39-5 Transition package for > ii libchm-dev 2:0.39-5 library for dealing with > ii libchm1 2:0.39-5 library for dealing with > rc libktnef1 4:3.5.7-4 Library for handling KTNEF > ii xchm 2:1.13-6 Compiled HTML Help (CHM)
Thanks! Try to upgrade libchm-bin, libchm-dev and libchm1 to 0.39-6 version and let me know if it makes difference. > I was updating my system as root in an xterm. Absent mindedly, I opened > xchm from that terminal, and it worked. I was able to view the chm (not the > source code). > > Went back to a different xterm (my usual user) and I still could only see > the html source in xchm. Interesting. Let me check with root. > First thing I did was to move ~/.xchm to ~/dot-xchm. Didn't help. Its config file, so will not make much difference. > Next thing I did was to see if it worked for my girlfriend's account on this > machine. It did. Check which libchm is there too. > So the only account on this machine that xchm works for is my main user > account. This is the only account on the machine that has *ever* used xchm > in the past. I wouldn't normally use xchm as root, and my girlfriend > doesn't even know what a chm file is. Please don't use xchm as root. Its not recommended to use root for normal day to day activities. > Yet I removed ~/.xchm. I'm at a loss. Any ideas? Let me check in more depth. -- Cheers, ---------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | GPG: 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ blog.ftbfs.in | kartikm.wordpress.com ---------------------------------------------- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]