Menu viewing problem...

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 12/25/08, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: Menu viewing problem...
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 8:20 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- On Thu, 12/25/08, Larry Shields
> <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net>
> >> Subject: Menu viewing problem...
> >> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 5:53 AM
> >> *I seem to be having a problem in most all of my
> programs
> >> that I run...
> >>
> >> Say for Openoffice wordprocessor all of the menus
> at the
> >> top I can not 
> >> view, All I see is ___    ___  ____, when I click
> on anyone
> >> of these 
> >> lines which are the drop-down menu's I can not
> view
> >> anything...
> >>
> >> There must be some settings that are messed up,
> might some
> >> one have any 
> >> idea of whats wrong here...???
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help on this...
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > Larry, there may be other more specific solution but
> the
> > easiest, quickest solution may be to purge all of OO.o
> > programs and then reinstall.  If the problem is indeed
> > caused by a configuration issue in OO.o, this should
> > fix it.  HTH.  Do an aptitude search for openoffice*
> to
> > list all the installed files, then add each one to
> your
> > purge command to assure yourself that you purge all
> > related files. In any case this shouldn't hurt
> anything
> > as long as you reinstall.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> *Hello Leonard,
> 
> The OO.o was just an example, it is happening on other
> programs as well...
> 
> My system has two hard drives,  with Intrepid installed on
> both of them, 
> on this hard drive everything works fine, the other HD also
> did at one 
> time, but now it seems to have gotten messed up some
> how...They both are 
> keep'ed up to date, so it isn't from any updates
> that have been install...
> 
> So I just wanted to know if anyone had the same problem and
> had a fix 
> for it...
> 
> Thanks for the reply...
> 
> Larry
>
Sorry, I can't help on your menu issue; never had the issue
myself on any program.  However, the purge advice is good
for anything that may be configuration related as it removes
those files and starts again with the defaults. Even though
you have two drives set up identically, that doesn't preclude
one messing up somehow.  However, I can't fathom what issue
would cause the menu issue on several different programs.
Perhaps there are others that can be of more help.  Good luck.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net