Hope this helps: this very strange behaviour happened to me, too, but with a tar.gz installation I made some time ago.
I filed a bug to openoffice.org, issue #2612, (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2612) but nobody could find neither an answer, nor an hack. The only way to make OO show its menus was to comment out the Freetype extension from /etc/XF86Config-4. When truetype fonts were not loaded OO showed its menus... So, what I did? I completely *reinstalled* Debian on that computer, as I could not find *any* way to solve that problem (yes, a rather windows-ish solution) Everything begun to work the right way again, then. So, I don't think this bug is related to the package, but it has something to do with OO upstream. Just my 2 euro cents. Best regards. -- Ing. Emanuele Gissi, PhD - Direttore Operativo Agenzia per il Risparmio Energetico - SAVE Agency via Trieste 2, I-60124 Ancona, Italy ph & fax: 0039 071 2077575 "No one wakes up in the morning saying: I want to consume 12kWh today." [HL Willis, 1996] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]