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

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:57:21 +0100
Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Could you report this following the instructions at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs? (i.e. create an account at
> launchpad.net and click Help->Report a Problem in OpenOffice.) That way the
> appropriate developers will get to see it. Thanks :)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Chris G <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
> >
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> 
> 

Did you install OpenOffice.org or did it install as part of the
upgrade? Perhaps it did not fully install? I think I would verify that
it is actually installed correctly. I seem to recall several issues
with it where it did not fully install and had to be reinstalled to
get it to work properly.


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