Troubles with spellcheck and save...

[Cosmicbrat]

I'm new to Kubuntu.. Just made my first Kubuntu ISO yesterday.. I'm testing it out in two notebooks.. Seems I'll be changing all 12 computers in the family to Kubuntu.. This is a seriously good OS.. A LOT of love and life went into this OS..

I have a mess of concerns.. I hope it's ok to blast it all out in one note, without being c'd by f's gd dg's..

The world needs a fix for this serious computer problem..

Four times today, the lengthy posts I was creating vanished right off the screen while I typed in a Youtube comments section, when the video changed, or when the cursor skipped off the window, or when my wrist skimmed the mouse pad.. I lost three excruciating hours of top-level science related effort, that I just don't have the strength to redo, as it all came from 'off the top', and it's gone forever...

Seems there needs be an echo or shadow notepad, secret passworded-safe keyloggerish feature, collecting the data in real-time, so should a silly crash happen, the work is never lost..

Or, maybe the feature is already there, and I just need to configure it to On..? Please advise on how it's done...

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Anyone notice that Kate's spellcheck is faulty..? 99% of the time spelling corrections don't show under the logitech marble mouse cursor in Kate, in this 'dell studio xps notebook'..
I need to copy the work, and spellcheck it somewhere else.. This is just silly...

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Kate needs a surface instant save-button for serious movie script-writers.. And an auto-save-every-minute feature...

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Does anyone know if FocusWriter causes any incompatibility system glitches in this wonderful Kubuntu-16 distro..?

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Why does the scroll button go top and bottom only, in this forum compose..? Where are the little scroll arrows..? Is this just a my computer setting..?

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Why does the white cursor keep changing back to the black cursor every time I go into Firefox.?

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Please don't beat me up for asking these silly questions.. I just need to know.. and I ain't here to give blood...

[GreyGeek]

The only dumb question is the one not asked. Welcome to Kubuntuforums!

I had similar accidental erasures until I disabled the touch pad.
In KDE is the option, in System Settings, to disable the touch pad when you have a mouse plugged in.
See the attached pic.

[jlittle]

Four times today, the lengthy posts I was creating vanished right off the screen while I typed in a Youtube comments section, when the video changed, or when the cursor skipped off the window, or when my wrist skimmed the mouse pad.. I lost three excruciating hours of top-level science related effort, that I just don't have the strength to redo, as it all came from 'off the top', and it's gone forever...

Seems there needs be an echo or shadow notepad, secret passworded-safe keyloggerish feature, collecting the data in real-time, so should a silly crash happen, the work is never lost..

Edit - Ach, what I suggest below doesn't work for you tube comments! It did once... However, cut and paste does, so I suggest that after a comment gets to more than a sentence or two, you select all, and paste into your editor of choice, and continue to type there.

If you're typing this stuff in the You Tube comments section, IIUC you're using a browser, maybe Firefox or Chrome, and the feature you ask for is properly a plug in for that browser. ^* I use "It's all Text" with Firefox, and it can be configured to use your favourite editor, which then can do auto-saves (at least, LibreOffice Writer will). The text is written to a temporary file, which I've sometimes used to get back to text that has got lost by mistake.

^*I like your thinking, but it would still be at the level of the toolkit the application was coded in; I've never heard of such a feature in Qt or GTK but IMO a good idea. However, Firefox (and Chrome I think) use their own clones of those.

[Cosmicbrat]

Edit - what I suggest below doesn't work for you tube comments! It did once...

I fixed it by installing a fistful of dictionaries.. There be spellcheck in Kate...

^{Quoting: '}I like your thinking'...

You can think way beyond your ceilings by pushing your thoughts a little bit further and deeper every day an hour per day for 20-years.. It's called 'the 20-years introspection'.. then something 'clicks', but once On, you cannot turn it Off.. It's a curse...

You engage the lessons of the great ancients.. First thing you do is 'jump through the top of a pyramid' in ultra deep trance, then find a sunburst in a deep meditation, and fly through it, and more sunbursts.. Then fly through them all at once, if you dare, but your heart can stop right about then if you fail to quit the moment you notice your heart is being stressed.. Restart beat, if you can summon it, stings like H when it bulges up between ribs, ripping major nerve tissues...

What is the very best Ubuntu text editor..? that has external tool buttons for save and copy/paste features, and the header and tool bars are fully customizable..?

Maybe focuswriter should be default install..? Cater to the world's creative writers.. After all, we are humanity's future.. Give us OS's that don't fight us, that work with us.. Quit catering to those mindless ones who are prisoners of cyberworld's cartoon, who should still be in cribs and diapers.. who have lost their minds to childish playfull activities and coke, and to deep-set angers and hates for their closeted cumulative babyhood pains.. Heck! Those goofy pocket communicators are now their electronic minds.. All they have left of thinking and thouight processing is predetermined fear and glory based opinion, and blind hate...

Next time you can't solve a computer software glitch, put it to a sciency minded kid, preferably an open-minded free-spirit female, or to a whole classroom of sciency minded kids, if there are any left in humanity, a fading lost reality I fear...
Just once through, only the basics of it, and ask the kid(s), 'what do you think it might be?'.. Video its/their response.. Study their eyes...
When I was 15, I walked into UWO's chemistry building, right straight into the Dean's office, asking him for some rare, impossible to get chemicals for my experiments.. After 7-minutes chatting with me, he issued me a university library card, a letter to chemical stores to fill my request, a key to chemical stores, a letter to the resident glassblower to make everything I requested, and asked me to drop-in on the fourth year students on the fourth floor.. Third lab I dropped into, the forth year guy says 'please come in.. I heard about you little einstien'.. He showed me his huge pyrex manufacturer's assembly setup, which spanned four and a half long lab benches, filling the room with swirling bubbling flaming glass and metal things, and pointed, 'that's where it stops'..
I gazed at it a minute, studying it in a flash of extreme depth, and said off the cuff, 'why don't you give it a rest there..' He Yelled "YES!", and dove into five huge chemistry manuals.. It solved his problem.. He finally invented his new compound, and gradyumatered...

i kaint shpel so good.. Yay spellcheck!.. I dropped out er school way two early.. It was boring and stifling, and dint have no love nor reality in it.. They beated me up.. The homeroom football coach body-slammed me into things, making my legs and arms bleed.. Seems they dislike intelligence.. To them intelligence, love, and reality, is 'blasphemy'..
Point is, sometimes you are so into the big picture, that you fail to see the tiny things...

In this topic, I have a theme I always religiously follow when I'm working on outdoor benches with tools.. I set up the whole project, then back-off away and out of the project 100%, to study it a few minutes, then I come-in close, and look for anything tiny and alive that could get hurt on the bench and work area.. If I see a tiny bug there, I relocate it to a tree leaf, safe away from my work, is when I suddenly see all the tiny things of the project, and all the dangers, giving me the op to neutralize all the accidents before they could happen.. I never cut nor burn myself anymore.. I don't have accidents.. I see accidents coming in advance... Sometimes I see a vehicle accident two-minutes in advance, and pull over and park, and wait, and watch the accident unfold a few thousand feet ahead, playing itself out without pulling me into its hellish-mess.. Same goes for broken glass and nails on the road...

When is someone gonna build (write) my animated, much needed and requested, 'seven headed dragon desktop manager', for this skin-graft computer, with alpha, beta, and delta, linkages..? Cursor comes close to a head, and it fiercely growl-screams as it lunges and bites the cursor, thereby opening that file or program.. When a file is closed, dragon blasts fire on the window, which explodes/bursts into flaming fragments, smoke, and glowing dust.. A Linux derivative of Maya would be good for the particle formats.. but maybe that's a pushin' it too much..?
Another animated desktop manager could be meteors, spacejunk, and asteroids, striking the planet..? maybe..?
It's time for animated desktop managers...

[Cosmicbrat]

Heyyy! I just clicked up a tune in Kubuntu-16, and up came Audacity, right when and where it should be.. as best as it could be..
Program writing don't get any better than that.. That's peak ceiling.. but still ceiling..
..So poke a hole in it, and see where your path leads...

How do I get rid of that bouncing ball cursor thingawhozits..? I cannot write whilst being interrupted watching the kiddies playing bouncy-ball, in the middle of me writing this script about a family and crew of an asteroid mining-project, when there suddenly be a bouncing ball on the screen.. Do you have even a clue how bad that animation destroys a writer's roll like lightning rips through a tree..? If you did, you would shoot your screen with a shotgun, and beg forgiveness..
How do I totally erase ALL those animation programs from the OS, without it damaging the OS..? Some people like them.. Some people absolutely Neeed them.. They are killing me... And given that writers are humanity's future.. those distractions are killing you too...
We need a good writers OS to write what will pull humanity out of insanity war and hell...

Your ball..

[jlittle]

Woodsmoke might have found a kindred spirit...

What is the very best Ubuntu text editor..?

Well, I'm a vim devotee. (Started with vi in the 80's.) The learning curve is steep and long, but so rewarding. Very helpful community. One can customize the toolbar in the GUI, though most vim users eschew it.

How do I get rid of that bouncing ball cursor thingawhozits..?

That's a desktop effect. System settings -> Workspace, Desktop behaviour.