openoffice menus show as lines and dialog boxes are blank

[NoOp]

On 12/16/2008 12:25 AM, dwain wrote:
> both the ubuntu 2.4 version and the package that i downloaded and installed
> from openoffice.org (v 3.0.0) give me lines for menu titles and when i drop
> them down i get lines or maybe an icon in a blank box.  the font box is
> blank as well.  all of my dialogue boxes are blank with lines or maybe an
> icon.  buttons have lines too.
> 
> if this subject has been discussed before and fixed would someone point me
> to the link that gives the fix to the problem?
> 
> cheers,
> dwain
> 
> 

Close OOo. From a terminal:

mv ~/.openoffice.org ~/.openoffice.org.back
mv ~/.openoffice.org2 ~/.openoffice.org2.back

Restart OOo. Does it work now?

I would also recommend that you reinstall your 2.4.1 version - you can
run 2.4.1 _and_ 3.0 in parallel, that's why you have 2 .openoffice.x
folders.