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

[Chris G]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:40:42AM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:57:21 +0100
> Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > 
> > 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 :)
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
I've had it installed for a while, from around 8.10 I think so it
wasn't added on by the 9.10 upgrade.

It turns out that one can work around the problem by switching to full
screen and then back again.  Also, if you drag the bottom right corner
of the window to change size the problem doesn't show up!  It's when
you drag the top left corner that the problem is worst.

-- 
Chris Green