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Installation To download Java Runtime Environment needed to run FreeMind FreeMind cannot detect a new version of Java. What can I do? With what Java virtual machines does FreeMind actually work? Using Is there no undo in FreeMind? How much memory do I need? To create a graphical link To remove a graphical link To print from FreeMind on Linux To add user icons to FreeMind To open links in only one browser window, rather than several Is it difficult to provide FreeMind with Java Webstart? To run FreeMind on Linux To create PDF out of FreeMind's mind map To convert mind maps between !FreeMind and MindManager Who's the development team of FreeMind? To have brainstorm-like mode similar to one found in MindManager On what operating systems have people actually succeeded in running FreeMind? Is there a PDA-Version, e.g. for Palm or Pocket PC? How large maps can I edit with FreeMind? How can I keep FreeMind from opening the last file from the last session? To change the fill color on bubbles To remove a cloud To search in FreeMind To move nodes around Mind maps on web pages with FreeMind's applet To get FreeMind's applet working To present your mind map on the web To view the toolbar automatically after the applet starts Is there a list of names and values and functions of all params for the applet? Bugs (and workarounds) in FreeMind FreeMind behaves strange or crashes. What can I do? When I drag files into the !FreeMind window, FreeMind just works very long or I get a mind map of the file system Changing the key bindings in user.properties does not work Using: HTML-related things What HTML tags does FreeMind support? To embed, or more precisely link, images into FreeMind To put the contents of a Microsoft Word document into FreeMind To have tables in FreeMind FreeMind on Microsoft Windows How do I install FreeMind? FreeMind does not seem to be affected by the things I edit in the user.properties! Why? To create a screenshort of FreeMind and paste it into Microsoft Word or Microsoft Powerpoint To export a map to Microsoft Powerpoint Other things Other sources of information about FreeMind To spell FreeMind correctly To suggest new enhancements of FreeMind This FAQ I have a question not listed here, what should I do? To edit this FAQ Where can I practice editing pages on this Wiki? Questions not yet answered How can I include FreeMind maps in Wikka Wiki pages? On linking nodes with OpenOffice1.1.1. under Linux2.4

Installation

To download Java Runtime Environment needed to run FreeMind. To download JRE for Windows, go to Download on Sun, go to the section Download J2SE v 1.4. ... and now choose the column JRE, not SDK. The installation file of JRE has approximately 15 MB.

FreeMind cannot detect new version of Java. What can I do? Let us assume that you have installed a new version of Java, and still, FreeMind complains about having old version of Java. This may occur especially if you installed SDK rather than JRE. SDK stands for standard development kit and contains much more than you need to run FreeMind; you only need runtime environment. It is important that the new version of java is in your path. To check it out on Microsoft Windows, run command ``cmd using Windows-key + R, followed by ``java -version. You should get something like

java version "1.4.2_03" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode) where the particular version number is not important as long as it is at least 1.4.0.

With what Java virtual machines does FreeMind actually work? FreeMind works with the virual machines from Sun, from the version 1.4.0 and higher. Additionally, FreeMind has been reported to run on the JDK 1.4.2 from Blackdown.

Using

Is there no undo in FreeMind? There is no undo so far. Help against data loss are offered by:

FreeMind's autosave-feature You can install a clipboard manager, which will make all elements, which you cut from FreeMind, available in its history. A freeware example of a clipboard manager for MS Windows is Yankee Clipper How much memory do I need? Keywords: RAM. Experience shows that 64 Mb is not sufficient, while 128 Mb is already ok, provided that you do not run another Java application. Correct me if I'm wrong. I am using FreeMind on Windows 95 + 128 Mb without any problems.

To create a graphical link.

Go to the source node. Mark it with the mouse. Press the left mouse button. Hold this button. Press Ctrl+Shift buttons. Continue to hold all these buttons. Go to the destination node. Release the mouse button, first. Then release the keybord buttons. You have your link. Alternatively, drag'n drop holding right mouse button.

To remove a graphical link.

Right-Click on the curved arrow of the graphical link Choose "Remove Arrow Link" from the pop-up menu (Left-clicking on a graphical link does nothing)

To print from FreeMind on Linux. In Debian GNU/Linux some users use cupsys-bsd package to print via CUPS printing system and it works fine for them.

To add user icons to FreeMind. Currently, really adding user icons is not possible. BUT you can inline images in any node. Just something like this: <html><img src=""> in the a FreeMind node. This should also work with local files with "file:" instead of "http:".

To open links in only one browser window, rather than several. To our knowledge this is not possible at the moment.

Is it difficult to provide FreeMind with Java Webstart? Well, it's not that easy. Joerg Mueller succeeded in doing just that and has sent his source code to Daniel Polansky, who did not succeed in getting it running; he did not consider that a high priority. What is important is that Microsoft Windows users have a convenient installer, and the users of the other operating systems are already used to not so convenient methods; the installation is pretty straightforward anyway.

To run FreeMind on Linux. If you're experiencing problems running FreeMind on Linux, also try to change the user rights of freemind.sh with ``chmod u+x ./freemind.sh. After that you should be able to run FreeMind with ``./freemind.sh

To create PDF out of FreeMind's mind map. If you want to create pdf out of FreeMind's mind map, you've got several options. One of the options you have is to download XSLT transformations sheets from Christoph Rissner, convert FreeMind's mind map to Mind Manager's mind map, then to DocBook, and create pdf from that DocBook. You can read more on that on Abgeschlossene Arbeiten > Mind Maps.

To convert mind maps between FreeMind and MindManager. Click here: Import and export to other applications

Who's the development team of FreeMind? Daniel Polansky: the director of FreeMind is Daniel Polansky, i.e. me. The label ``director is not quite appropriate, ``parliament would be better. I test new versions, give advice, sometimes act in the name of FreeMind, forbid versions to be released because of insufficient quality, and approve them when they're ready. Also, I set up mantinels for new directions.

The main actor on the scene is Christian Foltin. We use the label ``code master to denote his role, and also ``manager. He does most of the work and decides on which code changes are acceptable what concerns the coding quality. He takes care of mergers. Also, he coordinates the developers.

To have brainstorm-like mode similar to one found in MindManager. Did you notice you can hit Enter and Shift-Enter to create sibling nodes? It is not exactly the behavior of brainstorm mode of MindManager, but still close to it.

On what operating systems have people actually succeeded in running FreeMind? Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Linux (Mandrake 9.2, RedHat? Pro WS 3, SuSE? 8.2 (using the RPM for 9.0), SuSE? 9.0, Debian sarge, Debian sid, Slackware 9.1, which others?), Mac OS X (10.3), OS/2. Keywords: platforms.

Is there a PDA-Version, e.g. for Palm or Pocket PC?? Not that we know of. So far, no one has reported a success at running FreeMind on Palm or Pocket PC. See FreeMindPDAVersion.

How large maps can I edit with FreeMind? Theoretically, there are no built-in limits. Practially, the maximum reported size is 3 MB; after exporting to HTML and pasting to Microsoft Word, the very same content had 3.8 MB. For a better practical estimation, experimental test are needed as the maximum given so far is only a lower bound on practial limits.

How can I keep FreeMind from opening the last file from the last session? One way is to disable the changing of the file "auto.properties" (which is in the same folder as user.properties). Be aware that the menu "Edit -> Preferences" will not change anything any more than! To do that go to the file auto.properties and delete everything behind "onStartIfNotSpecified=" in that line. Now set the file "auto.properties" to read-only.

To change the fill color on bubbles. There's an icon for it at the main toolbar. Additionally, you can find it in the popup menu at Node > Style > Cloud color.

To remove a cloud. Press Ctrl+Shift+B to toggle clouds.

To search in FreeMind. Keywords: find. Press Ctrl + F. For finding next occurrence, press Ctrl + G. Searching is restricted to the descendants of the node selected when pressing Ctrl + F. The search is a breadth-first search, first finding occurrences in the nodes closer to the starting node.

To move nodes around. To move them up and down, user ctrl + up and down arrows. To move them wherever you want, use drag'n drop with mouse. Keywords: move around, reorganize.

Mind maps on web pages with FreeMind's applet

To get FreeMind's applet working. See the guide. If you'd like to view a mind map published by someone else and have problems, check out in the Internet Explorer if in Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Java > ``Use Java2 is enabled. Of course, you'll need to have Sun Java installed.

To present your mind map on the web. Use FreeMind's browser applet. The following document (thanks to Bob) explains what to do to have a complete testing environment for your applet. The most common problem to see a freemind browser applet is that you have to use Java >= 1.4 in your browser. Check this using the "About plugins" section of your browser (or a similar place).

To view the toolbar automatically after the applet starts. It is necessary to edit the html starter of the applet and change the corresponding property. That is, set toolbarVisible=true. More precisely, add a tag <PARAM NAME="toolbarVisible" VALUE="true"> to freemindbrowser.html or whatever name you have changed the file to.

Is there a list of names and values and functions of all params for the applet? No. Theoretically, all parameters found in user.properties can be used as parameters of the applet.

Bugs (and workarounds) in FreeMind

FreeMind behaves strange or crashes. What can I do? First try reinstalling both Java (mostly the latest version is best) and !Freemind. Often this solves problems. One of the problems solved in this way was:

My computer crashes, or more precisely locks, when I click on a link in FreeMind, using J2RE 1.4.2_03 on Windows 98. Reinstalling helped. In retrospect, I think what broke it was that I renamed the J2RE directory to something easier to write in the bat file path statement. Broke it. When I drag files into the FreeMind window, FreeMind just works very long or I get a mind map of the file system This is a bug which is a least present on FreeMind 7.2 beta and lower on Windows. I only know of a wordaround for this: Go to the user.properties and delete ",freemind.modes.filemode.FileMode?". This disables the file mode of FreeMind.

Changing the key bindings in user.properties does not work It seems that capitalization IS important in the keybindings. I wrote "enter" and it didn't work. I changed it to "ENTER" and it worked! (FreeMind 7.2 beta)

Using: HTML-related things

What HTML tags does FreeMind support? FreeMind basic HTML supports in its nodes. The node must start with "<html>" for that! What HTML is supported depends on the Java virtual machine. Among others, users have reported the following uses:

<html>

the node text

To embed, or more precisely link, images into FreeMind. You can link imagines into FreeMind using context menu of a node, accesed using right click (on MAC OS X Panther use Control click). Or type the following:

<html><img src="image.jpg"></html>where image.jpg is the reference to an image.

To put the contents of a Microsoft Word document into FreeMind.

First paste the Word document into Microsoft FrontPage. Delete the images afterwards as FreeMind does not support them. Remove the <head> ... </head> in the source text view in FrontPage. But leave the <html>! The node needs to start with that. Replace <body> with <body width=600> or similar width specification. Finally, paste the HTML text as a long node into FreeMind. To have tables in FreeMind. If you have Microsoft Frontpage available, it is convenient to create and edit HTML content there and paste it to and from FreeMind. Beware that the html code has to start with <html>. This way, you can conveniently create tables using the drawing tools of Frontpage. You can create formatted text this way as well; in that case, beware to set <body width=600> or similar. However, FreeMind does not interpret all HTML; especially, it does not interpret inline CSS styling so you have to use hard formatting instead.

If you want the table borders to have a nice two dimensional look rather than bevelled, start the HTML as follows.

<html> <head> <style> td { border-style: solid } table { border-style: solid } </style> </head>

FreeMind on Microsoft Windows

How do I install a test version of FreeMind? Just unzip the package to the folder "C:\Program Files\FreeMind". That completes the "installation". You can start it by running freemind.exe. You can find test versions here .

FreeMind does not seem to be affected by the things I edit in the user.properties. Why? Read the anser here: user.properties

To create a screenshort of FreeMind and paste it into Microsoft Word or Microsoft Powerpoint. To take a screenshot of your whole windows screen into clipboard, press Ctrl + Print Screen. To take a screenshot of the active window only into clipboard, press Alt + Print Screen. Select your Word or Powerpoint document and press Ctrl + V. On German keyboard, the key PrintScreen? has the label ``Druck. However, such a screenshot also contains FreeMind's window frame, not just the map contents. In Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint, this can be solved by cropping the screenshot; the cropping tool can be found in Picture toolbar.

To export a map to Microsoft Powerpoint. There's no elegant way to export a map to Powerpoint. The only way to do it is to take a screenshot, and paste it into Powerpoint.

Other things

Other sources of information about FreeMind

See also Tips and Tricks for FreeMind. Don't forget the documentation mind maps found in FreeMind's help menu. To spell FreeMind correctly. "FreeMind", with a capital M.

To suggest new enhancements of FreeMind Keywords: additional features, additional functions. At FreeMind's project page, you can submit Requests for Enhancements (RFEs)

This FAQ

I have a question not listed here, what should I do? Add your question here to the section Questions not yet answered. Or, ask your question in FreeMind's Help forum. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that you will get help, still, many users get it.

To edit this FAQ. Edit this page like any other wiki page (click edit or press alt-E). But if you're adding a question, copy the format of an old question and edit it (to give it a matching HTML named anchor like the others). This will cause it to appear in the automatic table of contents. Section headings are marked with h2 tags.

Or, just post as a comment and someone will merge it later.

Note: The anchor references to questions ending in _? (eg. How ?) do not work. Please put the question mark directly after the last word of the sentence. I guess it's browser-specific. I've been relying on mozilla. Are there other links that don't work for some people?

Where can I practice editing pages on this Wiki? Click on this link and just hit the edit button on the lower right: Sandbox

Questions not yet answered

Don't hesitate to post your messages here below.

How can I include FreeMind maps in Wikka Wiki pages?

stand alone browser -- Wed, 05 May 2004 20:05:27 +0200 reply is there a way to include and use the FreeMind browser applet on a CD-ROM. I want to use it to present my mindmap in a browser with links to documents included on the cd-rom and on the internet.

Linking trees -- Fri, 07 May 2004 22:51:58 +0200 reply Is there a way to associate a whole subtree from another part in the map? For instance, I am trying to create topics of programming knowledge and find that "Patterns" would fall under "C++", "JAVA" and "General programming techniques". I just want to make sure that what gets changed under one subtree gets propagated to the other instances.

Re: Linking Trees -- Sat, 08 May 2004 00:15:21 +0200 reply Answer to the above "Linking Trees" (teaches me to read the friendly manual first): 1. Go to the source node. 2. Mark it with the mouse. 3. Press the left mouse button. 4. Hold this button. 5. Press Ctrl+Shift buttons. 6. Continue to hold all these buttons. 7. Go to the destination node. 8. Release the mouse button, first. 9. Then release the keybord buttons.

You have your link. Alternatively, drag'n drop holding right mouse button.

... -- Mon, 10 May 2004 14:48:11 +0200 reply Can I configure the html export so that it includes a link to a CSS? So I don't have always to change the exported html page.

... -- Fri, 14 May 2004 16:32:59 +0200 reply No. Currently, you can't configure the html export so that it includes a link to CSS or CSS itself.

It doesn't work for me :-( -- Sun, 16 May 2004 15:31:14 +0200 reply I installed the latest Java and then FreeMind. I had a play with FreeMind and it crashed. I had to restart my WinXP? machine. Since then, cannot run FreeMind. I have uninstalled FreeMind and Java. Then re-installed Java then FreeMind. If I double click or run the FreeMind exe I don't see a window appear, nothing in the taskbar or anything. Also, if I try open a page on your site, that needs Java then my IE window just closes. Shame, I was looking forward to trying FreeMind. Any ideas?

Platforms -- Wed, 19 May 2004 08:21:49 +0200 reply As a Java based an hopefully crossflatform application, is it theoretically possible to run on Mac not OS X? What are the problems?

Re: Platforms -- Wed, 19 May 2004 21:43:24 +0200 reply It's just that nobody reported running FreeMind on other OS of Mac than Mac OS X. I am ignorant on Mac's operating systems anyway.

Re: Platforms -- Thu, 27 May 2004 04:21:50 +0200 reply The old Macs are in effect a differen operating system and Apple is nolonger updating it. The old macs do not have Java 1.4+ and will never get it. Solution, old mac user upgrade to OSX and then run FreeMind, which works very well on OSX 10.3.3 Java 1.4.2

Antialias? -- Mon, 24 May 2004 13:00:28 +0200 reply What does "antialias" mean in FreeMind Preferences? Answer: To antialias means to make fonts or curves look smooth by drawing additional pixels with in-between color. See also wikipedia on antialiasing.

On linking nodes with OpenOffice1?.1.1. under Linux2.4 -- Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:51:23 +0200 reply Hello, under W2K, I can link nodes with external documents without any problem. Under Linux I didn't figure out a way of doing the same. A 2003 post by Daniel stated that, at this time, there was no other possiblity under Linux but launching Mozilla whatever file extension or mime type was associated in the link. Is there a way now ? (2004/06/07)

Re: On linking nodes with OpenOffice1?.1.1. under Linux2.4 -- Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:40:52 +0200 reply Self answer, found in a forum : "Answer Unlike Windows, Linux does not have a core facility that launches applications based on a file's MIMEtype?. Such capabilities exist in various places - such as in the file managers for the desktops - but I know of no command you could reliably use in all Linux environments to launch an application from a file." One possible solution might be to launch the file in Netscape itself, with the AppletContext?.showDocument() method. Netscape would presumably "show" the document in some way that makes sense for the document's MIMEtype?." ____

Well well, if starting an application based on the mime type seems difficult in Linux, it may exist another way. Sorry for the presumable childish question : is it possible to use Mozilla for issuing a shell like commande, like "../program/swriter toto.sxw" ? Or anything else that would open the linked openoffice file from a node and letting not only view (a html save as would do it) but actually edit? Thank you for your attention. JFD PS If there is no elegant workaround, I'll copy the full text paths in the text nodes and later copy to the openOffice url locator for editing / viewing.

Hosting freemind on IIS -- Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:16:45 +0200 reply How to Host freemind on IIS

W2K, OpenOffice1?.1.1 (upgrade), and broken file links -- Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:10:53 +0200 reply Since upgrading my OpenOffice from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 a link to a spreadsheet no longer works. I've tried re-doing the link to no avail. No other problems noted with the OO or freemind; what now?

maybe wikimedia or tiki instead?... this wiki is not very wiki like -- Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:20:08 +0200 reply

stand alone browser -- Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:21:54 +0200 reply load it all in one folder with relative links and burn... tell us what happens

Re: maybe wikimedia or tiki instead?... this wiki is not very wiki like -- Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:23:22 +0200 reply Well, I think this Wiki is just fine. Whether it uses what is considered standard Wiki markup I cannot tell; the markup is quite fine anyway. Dan of FreeMind.

Email Links from FreeMind -- Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:12:30 +0200 reply How do I paste in an email link? I can paste in a link to a message, but it doesn't seem to work like the example on the Documentation

W2K, OpenOffice1?.1.1 (upgrade), and broken file links -- Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:51:26 +0200 reply Regarding this roblem of mine -- might it help to reinstall FreeMind?

more languages? -- Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:08:44 +0200 reply Is German or French available? Re: Change the language in user.properties.

.deb install -- Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:57:33 +0200 reply hello, how do I install freemind[bla]?.deb on my debian system? I did not find any answers about what to do after downloading the dot deb file on this page :(

URL nodes -- Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:09:59 +0200 reply Can you have nodes that are URLs?? Re: What do you mean by ,,nodes that are URLS? Nodes can have web links inserted, but that does not seem to answer your question. Re: I am sorry - Ctrl K does what I wanted. (great tool by the way!)

Difference between FreeMind and Buzan mind-maps? -- Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:52:56 +0200 reply Why do you say that FreeMind isn't really like Buzan-style mind-maps? Simon Re: We have several reasons for warning users that FreeMind does not comply fully with Buzan's wishes. Firstly, the graphical possibilities are limited. The look of the main branches is basically the same as the look of secondary branches. The positioning of the main branches is not flexible, unlike in MindManager. Secondly, the support for pictures is inferior. We do not support pictures embedded directly in the mind map, i.e. the picture files are stored outside the mind maps. And when you try to edit a picture, your favorite bitmap editor is not opened. Summed up, it is possible to work with pictures, but not seamless. Our main point is to keep as many as possible of the statements we make on the web pages traceable. We don't want to create a gap between expectations created by our presentation texts and by the actual user experience. Dan of FreeMind

Provide links between nodes or link to a specific node in a different map -- Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:54:05 +0200 reply Is there a way to establish a link from one node to another node, either in the same, or a different map?

Forked background colors -- Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:56:02 +0200 reply How, precisely, do you change the background color - not text - of the forked (not Cloud) style of the nodes?

To open links in only one browser window, rather than several -- Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:13:40 +0200 reply Depends on the internet browser you are using. With Mozilla Firefox with TabBrowser? Extension you can customize Mozilla to work with one window only, open new links in separated Tabs.

To set background picture -- Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:43:57 +0200 reply Hmm - can you specify a picture to be used as the background and not a color per se? Re: No, it's not possible.

.deb install -- Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:42:04 +0200 reply I tried the following and it worked (Debian/sarge): $ dpkg -i freemind.deb

Cheers, Christophe.

Multi-line nodes overlap others -- Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:10:19 +0200 reply Multi-line nodes overlap with other nodes, making the others difficult to see and access. How can I stop this happening? Re: This is a known error; only the children of the root suffer from this.

Fonts -- Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:49:26 +0200 reply Is there a simple way of changing the fonts (or color, size, etc) of all nodes at once?

.deb install and dependences -- Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:39:49 +0200 reply freemind Debian package needs j2re1.4 or java2-runtime packages that are not in Debian archives. How can I find them ? Thanks for your answer.

... -- Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:56:25 +0200 reply

installation won't pick up j2se1.4 -- Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:05:43 +0200 reply I'm trying to install freemind-0.7.1-2.noarch.rpm on Sun's Java Desktop 2.0 (which is essentially SuSE? with some interface changes. I get the following messages:

1. rpm -i freemind-0.7.1-2.noarch.rpm

error: failed dependencies: java_runtime >= 1.4 is needed by freemind-0.7.1-2

However, as you can see, I have TWO j2re's >= 1.4:

j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs j2re-1.4.2_05-fcs

java is in the path:

1. which java

/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java

1. java -fullversion

java full version "1.4.2_05-b04"

And just for good measure, I've set the JAVA_HOME variable:

1. printenv JAVA_HOME

/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05

What is the secret handshake, here?!?

re: installation won't pick up j2se1.4 -- Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:06:38 +0200 reply Whatever your problem is, the plain binary distribution of FreeMind (in contrast to RPM packaging) should work for you.

re: installation won't pick up j2se1.4 -- Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:52:31 +0200 reply I have just installed FreeMind RPM and had the same problem. As I was sure my j2re was OK, I just made a rpm -i --nodeps. Freemind is working fine.

can't edit wiki -- Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:22:10 +0200 reply

Is there any support for import/export from MindMapper?? If not are there any clever hacks to do most of the work?

Deleting Nodes -- Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:24:32 +0200 reply Is there a way to invoke the deletion of a node with a keyboard combination rather than the right click menus. Althought this is a personal preference anyway, as someone who suffers with RSI, I try to avoid as much mouse activity as possible. Many thanks Re: Press Ctrl + X to delete a node with keyboard.

line-break -- Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:31:41 +0200 reply Is it possible to have a line-break in a node?

line-break -- Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:56:33 +0200 reply found it myself already. great tool BTW

Notes -- Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:59:14 +0200 reply Is there a way of attaching a note to a node? For example I want to provide more information on a specific node for review purposes without having to add the contents of my note as a separate child node because it is not part of the scheme at hand.

repository for easy distribution to education admins -- Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:04:34 +0200 reply It would be fantastic if resources were found to supply an rpm repository for the educators using apt-get or yum to maintain and update LTSP; LTSP supplies some 100,000+ students with computer services.

re: installation won't pick up j2se1.4 -- Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:56:57 +0200 reply history of install: 3827 sudo rpm -i --nodeps freemind-0.7.1-2.noarch.rpm 3828 ls 3829 whereis freemind 3830 updatedb 3831 sudo updatedb 3832 freemind/ 3833 ls 3834 sudo freemind

/usr/bin/freemind: line 30: java: command not found

fc1

installation won't pick up j2se1.4 -- Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:46:15 +0200 reply I'm not nearly as successful as you. I just installed the jre but it's not coming up when I run which java... How did you set your path? dgd goes looking

zope: no threaded comments -- Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:47:16 +0200 reply Bummer, zope doesn't appear to thread comments.

zope: no threaded comments -- Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:48:17 +0200 reply and clicking on the table of contents doesn't jump to page anchor

Easiest way to combine two maps? -- Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:07:23 +0200 reply What is the easiest way to combine two large maps into one, preferably preserving the first two? I'd like to run two separate sessions of Freemind with two different groups of people, then combine the results.

Creating Links textfile and Filechooser -- Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:26:13 +0200 reply I am trying to create a link in one mm that links to another mm file. This works okay if the target mm is in my home directory (in my case "P:\My Documents"), but if the target is in a subdirectory of home, I get a "New Mindmap".

Creating graphical links beyond the page borders -- Mon, 06 Sep 2004 17:42:31 +0200 reply When creating a graphical link and it's beyond the page borders...how do you scroll the screen while holding left mouse button + cntrl + shift. I can's find a way to scroll. Is it possible? Mouse scroll button does not function and neither does the side bar. Maybe I'm missing something.Any suggestions?

Viewing online, works in IE6 beautifully, no interation in Firefoc 0.9 -- Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:48:04 +0200 reply Having published a test map at http://www.kilobox.net/mindmaps/freemindbrowser.html I fid it works so well in IE6, right clicking functionality and (un)folding children, but there's no such interaction in Firefox 0.9. I've checked my java settings, but no idea, any help? email Wedgekin gmail.com