[opensuse] I finally switched over to Linux, but ...
I am glad I made the move, ... but still some parts do not work as I "used" to have it. 1. I have a mouse with 5 buttons! On each side the extra button was to switch backwards or forwards, when you a on a web page. Is there a chance I get this back here as well? 2. I used to have Active words, which allowed me to autocomplete text. Like my bank account, my address, my .... Is there an application for Linux? 3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictionaries I needed (e.g., Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, German, ...) a. Can I use my Babylon dictionaries? (I may have misunderstood that it is possible)? b. Can I get at least the same functionality back? bye Ronald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I am glad I made the move, ... but still some parts do not work as I "used" to have it.
1. I have a mouse with 5 buttons! On each side the extra button was to switch backwards or forwards, when you a on a web page. Is there a chance I get this back here as well?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/peripherals-hardware/43542-5-button-mouse.h... (Google: "linux 5 button mouse")
2. I used to have Active words, which allowed me to autocomplete text. Like my bank account, my address, my .... Is there an application for Linux?
Doesn't seem to exist for Linux, though people would like it. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98314 (Google: "activewords linux")
3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictionaries I needed (e.g., Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, German, ...) a. Can I use my Babylon dictionaries? (I may have misunderstood that it is possible)? b. Can I get at least the same functionality back?
a. I don't know. b. Have a look at this: http://www.geocities.jp/nikotuk/xbabylon-e.html I don't know if it's packaged for OpenSuSE 10.3 (Google: "babylon translator linux") Note: all google searches were made sans quotes.
bye
Ronald
This list is pretty newbie friendly, but have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html w.r.t. technical issues, e.g. getting that mouse working :-) Hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
1. I have a mouse with 5 buttons! On each side the extra button was to switch backwards or forwards, when you a on a web page. Is there a chance I get this back here as well?
I use imwheel (http://imwheel.sf.net/). There's no rpm for Suse but it wasn't to hard to compile yourself. Although I have to say I used it for a different task: Have a double-click on thumb-button. (I never managed to give the middle button a different task - it will always copy from selection) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 16:56 +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote:
1. I have a mouse with 5 buttons! On each side the extra button was to switch backwards or forwards, when you a on a web page. Is there a chance I get this back here as well?
I use imwheel (http://imwheel.sf.net/). There's no rpm for Suse but it wasn't to hard to compile yourself. Although I have to say I used it for a different task: Have a double-click on thumb-button. (I never managed to give the middle button a different task - it will always copy from selection)
I also have such a mouse with a wheel as middle button. Plus two side buttons the left of which doubles up as the middle button for pasting. I tried the site but its having issues at this time. Just how flexible is this thing? I would like to make the right side button do a menu perhaps a graphical script I write myself and call. ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 16:56 +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote:
1. I have a mouse with 5 buttons! On each side the extra button was to switch backwards or forwards, when you a on a web page. Is there a chance I get this back here as well?
I use imwheel (http://imwheel.sf.net/). There's no rpm for Suse but it wasn't to hard to compile yourself. Although I have to say I used it for a different task: Have a double-click on thumb-button. (I never managed to give the middle button a different task - it will always copy from selection)
I also have such a mouse with a wheel as middle button. Plus two side buttons the left of which doubles up as the middle button for pasting. I tried the site but its having issues at this time.
Running Windows I used the middle button to minimize windows. It was a really fast navigating. I never managed to reconfigure the middle button under linux. It will always past text.You can give it an additional function but whos interested in minimizing + paste?? But I can configure the thumb button. My mouse only have one but you can configure all buttons.
Just how flexible is this thing? I would like to make the right side button do a menu perhaps a graphical script I write myself and call.
As far as I found out: It is not totaly flexible. There is a key mouse in X windows. It simulates this. So you can do everthing the mouse keys can do. In other words imwheel just sends keys. Johannes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/05/2007 10:34 AM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictionaries I needed (e.g., Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, German, ...) a. Can I use my Babylon dictionaries? (I may have misunderstood that it is possible)? b. Can I get at least the same functionality back?
I use qstardict as a replacement for babylon. Qstardict is a qt clone of stardict. When you select a word, a pop-up appears with the translation. I downloaded some babylon dictionaries from the stardict (not qstardict) website and they work. However the stardict people removed the babylon dictionaries; I think they had to... I'm now figuring out how to convert the babylon BGL-files (downloaded from the website of babylon) into a readable format for qstardict.
bye
Ronald
Regards, André -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/09/2007 12:32 PM, drek wrote:
On 11/05/2007 10:34 AM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictionaries I needed (e.g., Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, German, ...) a. Can I use my Babylon dictionaries? (I may have misunderstood that it is possible)? b. Can I get at least the same functionality back?
I use qstardict as a replacement for babylon. Qstardict is a qt clone of stardict. When you select a word, a pop-up appears with the translation. I downloaded some babylon dictionaries from the stardict (not qstardict) website and they work. However the stardict people removed the babylon dictionaries; I think they had to... I'm now figuring out how to convert the babylon BGL-files (downloaded from the website of babylon) into a readable format for qstardict.
I re-found the converted babylon files from the stardict site: http://reciteword.sourceforge.net/stardict/babylon.php Now I'm going to test the bgl2txt program, which seems to convert all the BGL-files into text...
bye
Ronald
Regards, André
Again, André -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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