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Posted: Sep. 12 2007,18:51 QUOTE
I'm running DSL 3.4.2 on a machine with 400 MHz, 192MB ram, 400MB swap.

I've tried all the available Abiword packages: the .dsl, the .unc and even the gtk2-based .unc

They all download ok, and appear in my MyDSL menu. But when I click on the menu item, nothing happens. Odd, since most other things in DSL have "just worked".
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Posted: Sep. 13 2007,13:41 QUOTE
You could try starting abiword from a terminal window, it might throw up some error messages.
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Posted: Sep. 13 2007,15:49 QUOTE
ok, I'll try that. Do I need to specify the full path? I haven't run a DSL from the command line before.
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Posted: Sep. 13 2007,18:50 QUOTE
If you right-click on the icon and select "properties", you should see the full path to the application.
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Posted: Sep. 13 2007,19:41 QUOTE
I don't use icons, but I checked ~/.jwmrc

The shortcut was /opt/abiword/abiword - when I tried this in aterm, it said there was no such file. I checked the contents of /opt/abiword and found the shortcut should be /opt/abiword/bin/abiword - now it starts up fine.

Of course, now I just need to make the spell checker work, and from what I've seen elsewhere on the forum that'll be a royal PITA.
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