[ubuntu-uk] OpenOffice.org problems

[David King]

Thanks for your help, Alan, it worked and now OOo is functioning 
properly again.


David King


Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 04/11/09 09:50, David King wrote:
>   
>> It made no difference installing the galaxy icon set.
>>
>> also, how do I change the icon set in OOo? I see no option in the program.
>>
>> And, after making that change, things got worse. All the menu entries
>> vanished. I had an icon in the panel for OOo Writer, which also would
>> not work without specifying the full path to the program. And when I run
>> it, I still the get the same error message.
>>
>> What can I do?
>>     
>
> My suggestions would be to:
>
> Backup and then remove any/all of your ~/.openoffice.org{x} directories, 
> e.g.
>
> cd ~
> tar zcvf OOo.backup.tar.gz ~/openoffice.org{x}
> rm -r ~/.openoffice.org{x}
>
> uninstall OOo and whatever debs you have installed.
>
> Synaptic is probably the easiest way to do this.
>
> Then, either, re-install the Ubuntu packaged version of OOo from the 
> main repo, or get the vanilla OOo debs from the OpenOffice.org site.
>
> There are several advantages to using the Ubuntu packaged OOo most of 
> which boil down to better integration with the gnome desktop environment.
>
> I used the original OOo 3.1 debs in Jaunty for a while, but had lots of 
> funny issues with screen redrawing and the in-built file picker wasn't 
> very good to use.
>
> But one of the issues you mentioned "it keeps crashing and then it fails 
> to recover documents." was fixed by removing my ~/.openoffice.org 
> directory and letting the right version create a new one when it first 
> starts.
>
> HTH
>
> Alan
>
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