LibreOffice with Unity buggy?

[Colin Law]

On 3 September 2012 13:22, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2012 08:16:40 David Fletcher did opine:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've managed to do a screen grab of Libre Office screwing up the display
>> in the manner I was complaining about (row, column and menu headers over
>> written with crap) without it taking down the rest of the system.
>>
>> Please take a look here:-
>> http://flightmaker.hopto.org/ubuntulist/ScrewedUpLODisplay.png
>
> OT:
> Something, probably associated with wine, has installed a mime.type that
> overrides the ubuntu version, so that when I click on the above link, I get
> a session of wine, running IE, which of course can't display the .png.

Do you mean when you click it in LibreOffice (in which case it is
actually Ctrl-Click I think)?  Is it ok if you click it in Firefox?

Colin

>
> For some reason, this 10-04.4 system has no mime prefs editor.
>
> Has anyone a clue where that is so I can nuke the SOB?  Or do I have to
> remove wine?
>
> Thanks.
>
>> which is on my home server and see if it looks familiar to anybody.
>>
>> This only happens on my desktop computer with the nvidia graphics card
>> in it, never yet seen on the netbook. What's the likelihood of this
>> being due to the nvidia driver that's frequently complained about?
>>
>> lspci produces:-
>> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200
>> LE] (rev a1)
>>
>>
>> Important question:-
>> If I were to turn off this computer, replace the nvidia card with an ATI
>> card, then switch the computer back on, would it continue to operate? My
>> guess is that it would, but I just want a little reassurance from the
>> list.
>>
>> Dave
>
>
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