Gimp xsane plug-in on bookworm

2025-02-20 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, I noticed on bookworm, that xsane is not being loaded as a plugin, even though is being recognised in the initial first run splash screen. Even if I create a symbolic link to xsane in the users .config/GIMP/plug-ins folder, still does not load. From terminal I notice a clash between the

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread dmthompson
Hi, What happened, to install openoffice using dpkg, libreoffice was removed, along with various other packages, so when i came back to reinstating libreoffice (as part of testing) openoffice was removed, but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the components of libreoffice were p

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Its what I am used to doing, and my thinking seems to go that way, but you are right, at the end of the day. I looged back into Debian this morning, after the email I sent following this thread title/subject, and you are right, and i think the person called Joe gave the hint, and i check

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Thanks for the reply, and help. I do not know the answer to the question, as yet. All i know is that unlike what I am used to, some kind of user interface comes up, where one part is a large box that incite dropping docs into to open - I tried that yesterday but still got an attempt to o

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread dmthompson
Hello, Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly have to go