openoffice menus show as lines and dialog boxes are blank [SOLVED]

[Leonard Chatagnier]

 On Wed, 12/17/08, dwain <dwain.alford at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: dwain <dwain.alford at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: openoffice menus show as lines and dialog boxes are blank [SOLVED]
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 6:31 PM
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:56 PM, NoOp
> <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Regarding reinstalling 8.10 just to resolve the OOo
> issue wasn't
> > necessary. The instructions that I gave to you only
> moved your
> > .openoffice.x profiles to a backup. Once you restarted
> OOo again, OOo
> > would have rebuilt a new profile & I'm willing
> to bet that your menus
> > would have been just fine afterwards.
> 
> actually after i installed base, i had the same problem
> with the menus
> again.  i did as you suggested and still nothing.  the only
> thing i
> didn't do is stop ooo in a terminal, because i
> don't know how.
> 
Type CTRL-C in the terminal. As you are looking at the terminal that is.

> so i'm back to square one again with a complete
> reinstallation of 8.10
> not an option.
> 
> any other suggestions?
> 
> cheers,
> dwain
> 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net