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Hello,
I am using Libreoffice on Ubuntu 11.10. It works perfectly well, however lately I have noticed a dotted grid in the background and for some reason it appears there and loads itself whenever I open the program. I can write normally, it is not a table rather it looks like a part of the background.
It is really annoying, how can I get rid of it?
Jakub Niemiec
Hi Jakub,
Hello,
I am using Libreoffice on Ubuntu 11.10. It works perfectly well, however lately I have noticed a dotted grid in the background and for some reason it appears there and loads itself whenever I open the program. I can write normally, it is not a table rather it looks like a part of the background.It is really annoying, how can I get rid of it?
Probably:
Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Grid
☐ Visible grid [disabled]
mjk
Yes thank you, thank you, it fixed it!
I hope MySQL isn't OT. I am trying to set up a MySQL database with LibreOffice
Base as a front-end. I have installed MySQL in Windows XP and I can create
tables and so forth and the next thing is to connect to MySQL. I have
downloaded the MySQL ODBC Connector but when I try to run it I get a
window for about 1ms and then it vanishes. Has anyone succeded in installing
this?
Tony Sumner
LO has an extension: "MySQL Native Connector". From what I have
read on this list, this extension works better than using an ODBC or
JDBC. You might want to download and install it instead.
--Dan
Hi 
There is not one for Windows yet. It would need to be built. The ones for Mac and Gnu&LInux are here
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/mysql-native-connector-for-mac-osx
No-one with Windows has built and uploaded their one yet. I think there are instructions on how to compile it from Source but i gather you have to compile the whole of the LibreOffice from Source at the same time. I odn't know where to begin with that sort of thing and the only Windows i have access to is at work where i don't really have time to do things like this (even if i knew how to which i don't).
Regards from
Tom
Tom, Dan
The Windows Native MySQL connector 1.01 is working on LO 3.4 and LO 3.5
Hi,
I am also among the crowd "hankering" after a native MySQL/MariaDB-
connector in LO. I run LO both under Windows/Vista, Debian-Wheezy (testing!)
and Linux-Mint-12 (Lisa).
Debian: LO 3.5-rc3
Mint: LO 3.5-rc3
Vista: LO 3.3.3
The native connector works ONLY on Windows-Vista (quite flawlessly, actually).
For quite some time I have been following the "story" about the Linux
versions of the connector - without success. Trying to download it from the
LO extensions internet site and then to install it using the extension manager
I keep getting an error message
(Loading component library failed. ..../mysqlc.uno.so).
Regards
Heinz
Thanks to everyone for advice on this. I'll try out your suggestions
and report back soon.
Tony
...
Actually it is for the thread that you hijacked: "Writer - Dotted grid
background". In the future please start a new email & subject rather
than tagging on to another thread and simply changing the subject. You
probably wouldn't appreciate it if you started a new, clean thread
titled 'MySQL Connect' and someone came along and started a new subject
within that thread. I also don't think that those that responded:
- Dan Lewis
- Tom Davies
- Jay Lozier
- Fernand Vanrie
- Heirich Stollinger
et al would appreciate the same if someone did this to their thread.
To see how the thread changed, see:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/16492>
For further information please see:
<http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette>
and I tend to like:
<http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines#Do_Not_Hijack_Threads>
Thanks.
Sorry. I really did not pay that close attention to the thread.
I do believe that the question was answered though. If not, please say so.
--Dan
Hi
Hijacking threads is annoying. Mostly because when you try to find the subject of the 2nd thread in a few weeks time it is almost impossible and any good stuff is lost.
When you notice a thread has been hijacked the best thing to do is to FORWARDS the new thread back to the list and politely point out the reason. Mailing lists are a very sub-optimal way of providing user-support and expecting the entire world to intuitively understand the weirdnesses and complexities is (imo) insane. Are we here to help people or to criticise the slightest slip?
Regards from
Tom
Hi Jay,
Open Office has the following MySQL extension page. I linked to it from
MySQL.com
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector it has
several including Windows. It probably will work since LO and OOo share
much in common and MySQL is MySQL
This (the Oracle supplied connector) should work with all versions of LO
up to 3.3.4. I can not say whether it still works with the 3.4.x
versions of LO, from what I have heard, it does not, but I haven't had
the opportunity to check.
Alex
Hi Heinrich,
The native connector works ONLY on Windows-Vista (quite flawlessly,
actually).
For quite some time I have been following the "story" about the Linux
versions of the connector - without success. Trying to download it from the
LO extensions internet site and then to install it using the extension
manager
I keep getting an error message
(Loading component library failed. ..../mysqlc.uno.so).
Have you renamed/removed your LO user configuration, and then retried ?
Alex
Hi Alex,
No, I haven't. What exactly do I have to remove? There is a ".config/libreoffice/3/user/..."
directory under my /home/... directory.
Thanks for your help
Heinrich
Hi Heinrich,
No, I haven't. What exactly do I have to remove? There is a
".config/libreoffice/3/user/..."
directory under my /home/... directory.
Thanks for your help
Hmm, yes there is that one, but from what I gather, there might be other
leftover configuration bits from previous versions in other places - the
configuration folder paths got changed on Linux sometime during 3.4
development, which complicates things somewhat.
As a first attempt, I would try renaming your ./config/libreoffice to
something else, and then restarting LibreOffice, and trying to install
the connector again.
I wanted to install Linux Mint Lisa alongside Ubuntu Oneiric in order to
test, but the installation from the Live DVD keeps failing at the
partition stage...grr, and I haven't had time to sort it out.
Alex
Hi
This guide might help
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
Regards from
Tom
Hi Alex,
I renamed the libreoffice directory under .conf and tried to install the connector -
didn't work. Then I saw that after the attempt there were actually TWO mysqlc.uno.so files within the
directorytree of .conf/libreoffice:
./libreoffice/3/user/extensions/tmp/extensions/luq2qioc.tmp_/mysql-native-connector-1.0.1-linux-32bit.oxt/mysqlc.uno.so
as well as
./libreoffice/3/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/luq2qioe.tmp_/mysql-native-connector-1.0.1-linux-32bit.oxt/mysqlc.uno.so
I wonder what's wrong.
Heinrich
From the MariaDB askmonty knowledge base, the link just arrived today:
A new question has been posted to the Knowledgebase:
Hi Alex,
I had this issue when trying to install Ubuntu on my brother's new computer last year. Most likely it is due to the way raid is installed and handled on boot on your computer. I've only every used Ubuntu, but I would assume the live CD for Mint works the same as the Ubuntu's live CD's work. If so, select the try Mint option. Once you are booted, open a terminal and type the following:
type: sudo apt-get remove dmraid
then type "y" then enter
Then on the desktop, I assume you have an icon to install Mint, the same as Ubuntu has an option. Click on that icon to install. Then when you come to the partition portion of the install it should work fine. It worked perfectly for me.
I hope this helps you.
Don