How to fix error messages when starting OpenOffice oowriter.

[Larry Alkoff]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> I am getting the following error messages when I try to open ooWriter in
>> Kununtu Feisty Fawn from a konsole window.  Is there any way to
>> eliminate these errors?
>>
>> Someone on the OpenOffice list told me it was a (K)ubuntu problem.
>> Possibly something to do with finding a font that is called forl.
>> I'd appreciate any help on tracking it down.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> Starting from konsole:
>> ----------------------
>> lba at kinda ~ $ oowriter
>>
>> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
>> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>>
>> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>
>> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
>> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>>
>> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>
>> lba at kinda ~ $
>> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
>> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>>
>> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>
>> The ooWriter screen then comes up and it _seems_ normal.
> 
> Ok, I get the same error messages but I never start OO from a Konsole window 
> so I never saw them before (and didn't know -gasp- that anything was wrong).
> 
> So why are you worried about this if everything is working ok?   And why are 
> you starting OO from a Konsole window?
> 
> Ignore it.
> 
> 
> 


The reason I start OO from a konsole window is because it's easy to edit 
in a given subdirectory as opposed to browsing.

Of course if I can't fix it I'll ignore it ;-)

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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