[xubuntu-users] Open Office totally broken in xubuntu 9.10 - can't resize windows

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:57:21PM +0100, Vincent wrote:
>    Hi Chris,
> 
>    Could you report this following the instructions at
>    [1]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs? (i.e. create an
>    account at [2]launchpad.net and click Help->Report a Problem in
>    OpenOffice.) That way the appropriate developers will get to see it.
>    Thanks :)
> 
I've found it already in Launchpad.  It's Bug #490410, however it's
reported against Nvidia drivers, I've got exactly the same bug with
Intel drivers.


>    On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Chris G <[3]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
>      I'm amazed that I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, maybe it's
>      some quirk of my system but it seems unlikely.
> 
>      I have recently upgraded from xubuntu 9.04 to xubuntu 9.10, mostly it
>      has been fairly painless but just recently I tried to open some forms
>      in OPen Office and noticed a rendering problem.  So I tried opening
>      some wordprocessor documents and the problem was the same.
> 
>      Any attempt at resizing the window in Open Office results in a total
>      mess, the contents (i.e. the document or whatever) are not moved and
>      resized with the frame so the menus and content are left 'stranded'
>      and the rest of the window is filled with a 'trail' of frames.
> 
>      This makes Open Office completely unusable.
> 
>      It's some sort of rendering problem whereby the Open Office window
>      contents are not redrawn when you resize the window.
> 
>      This is a fairly standard xubuntu 9.10 installation with Open Office
>      3.1.1 running on a 1920x1200 Dell U2410 screen.
> 
>      --
>      Chris Green
> 

-- 
Chris Green