Misspelled words are no longer highlighted in Pidgin. I'm not sure what version it stopped working in but I'm currently at 2.4.3. The spell useflag is enabled for the application and the box to enable it in Preferences>Highlight Misspelled Words is checked. My LANG is set to en_US and aspell works from the command line. Reproducible: Always raphael ~ # emerge --info WARNING: repository at /usr/local/portage is missing a repo_name entry Portage 2.2_rc6 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_D_CPU_2.80GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:07:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r2, 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa amd64 audiofile berkdb bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss emul-linux-x86 encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde ldap lirc log4j mad matroska midi mikmod mono mp3 mpeg msn mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl seamonkey session spell spl ssl svg tcpd theora truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis wmf xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="logitech" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia trident" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Could you provide information about all your USE flags for pidgin? Could you try to run pidgin with "pidgin --debug" from termninal to see if there are problems there? Reopen with this info, if still have problems.
I am having the same problem. I'll give you the information you asked for from my machine. No amount of remerging of gtkspell or pidgin seems to fix it. USE: net-im/pidgin-2.4.3 USE="dbus eds gnutls gstreamer gtk meanwhile ncurses nls perl spell tk -bonjour -debug -doc -gadu -groupwise -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -zephyr" Relevant debug output: plugins: probing /usr/lib/pidgin/spellchk.so gtkspell: Failed to setup GtkSpell: enchant error for language: en
Created attachment 163120 [details] Pidgin debug out
I am getting the same error in my debug out. On top of that, this is affecting other GTK apps. gedit spell check doesn't work either (it marks every word as wrong and offers no suggestions). It seems to be a gtk-spell problem. Here are my use flags: net-im/pidgin-2.4.3 USE="dbus eds gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr" If I run aspell -a by itself, it works fine, so the En dictionary is installed, gtk-spell just can't pick it up for some reason. I've also attached the pidgin debug out. I'm re-opening this bug.
Thanks for all information. One more question: (13:35:49) gtkspell: Failed to setup GtkSpell: enchant error for language: en_US This appears to be enchant error (it is engine used by GtkSpell). Could you just try to rebuild it to see if the helps? It depends on hunspell and there was an update lately. You can also try revdep-rebuild. If this won't help reopen one more time.
did an emerge sync and world, re-emerged enchant and removed /root/.revdep* and ran revdep-rebuild (it found no broken links). I then restarted xdm. Spell check still doesn't work
(In reply to comment #6) > did an emerge sync and world, re-emerged enchant and removed /root/.revdep* and > ran revdep-rebuild (it found no broken links). I then restarted xdm. Spell > check still doesn't work > Try emerging app-dicts/myspell-en and then restart Pidgin. After reading this bug, I ran enchant-lsmod which displayed myspell (Myspell Provider) I then checked and there wasn't a myspell-en installed on the system. Once I emerged it and restarted piding, spellchecking worked. I guess it's a missing dependancy somewhere.
Well Eric's suggestion worked. I now have spell check back in GTK apps that use enchant. My make.conf has LINGUAS="en" in it, so some ebuild somewhere is not pulling that in like it should. Please leave this bug open until the dependency issue is resolved.
I think the problem is that app-text/enchant has the useflags aspell and hunspell whereas aspell is disabled by default. If you set the aspell useflag on enchant you don't need to emerge app-dicts/myspell-en, app-dicts/aspell-en will do fine.
upgraded to enchant 1.4.2 with aspell flag fixed my problem perhaps enchant 1.4.2 could be stabilized because 1.3.0 doesn't allow me to set aspell use flags.
(In reply to comment #9) look at the enchant ebuild looks broken to me. What do you think? app-text/enchant/enchant-1.3.0.ebuild looks like a bad ebuild. > I think the problem is that app-text/enchant has the useflags aspell and > hunspell whereas aspell is disabled by default. If you set the aspell useflag > on enchant you don't need to emerge app-dicts/myspell-en, app-dicts/aspell-en > will do fine. >
I am not sure how the whole *spell - enchant - pidgin system works, but in my setup, I fixed it by creating a custom config in .enchant/enchant.ordering containing only the following line: *:aspell I have myspell and aspell and dictionaries installed, but pidgin/enchant seem to be working only with aspell for some reason... Now I can successfully use: x11-plugins/purple-plugin_pack-2.5.1 (to be able to switch dicts on the fly) net-im/pidgin-2.5.8 app-text/enchant-1.4.2 app-text/aspell-0.60.6 app-text/gtkspell-2.0.15 (not sure if it is involved) app-text/hunspell-1.2.8 (not sure if it is involved)
+1 here ... my pidgin debug said: ... enchant error for language: en_US.UTF8 had to change USE flags in app-text/enchant from "hunspell -aspell" to "-hunspell aspell". then everything started working.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > did an emerge sync and world, re-emerged enchant and removed /root/.revdep* and > > ran revdep-rebuild (it found no broken links). I then restarted xdm. Spell > > check still doesn't work > > > > Try emerging app-dicts/myspell-en and then restart Pidgin. After reading this > bug, I ran enchant-lsmod which displayed > > myspell (Myspell Provider) > > I then checked and there wasn't a myspell-en installed on the system. Once I > emerged it and restarted piding, spellchecking worked. I guess it's a missing > dependancy somewhere. > Thank you Eric, this suggestion worked for me, now all kinds of apps are supporting inline spell checking again.
hunspell differed from aspell that it did not installed dictionaries by default. Currently this is fixed and this issue should be fixed too.
