I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, but to no avail.
On my parents stock LM 9.0 install, OpenOffice installed just fine and ran great for a while. Now, when any user logs in at the desktop and starts up any OO application, the "File", "Edit", "Format", etc. menus are all gone. There is a space for them and the drop down menus still work, there are just no words in them. It's tough to explain, so I took a screenshot with Gimp and posted it on my web site here: http://dilbert.dnsalias.com/graphix/oo_menu_gone.jpg Now, I also use VNC to admin it remotely (from my bedroom to the family room). When I start a VNC server (vncserver :5 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16) and access the machine that way, I can start OO and the menus display fine. The only difference that I see is when using VNC, it's using VNC's X11 server instead of XFree86. The resolution is also different. My parents use 800x600, depth 16. The things that I have tried are as follows: 1. When the problem first appeared, I shut down OO, logged out, restarted the X server, logged back in 2. Tried restarting the dm service 3. Tried removing the .openoffice directory from users home dir, then running OO 4. Tried rebooting the PC (years worth of Windows training taking over) 5. Tried removing the whole OO package, rebooting, re-installing None of the above have worked thus far. I have some more ideas to try, but they are fairly in-depth. No other application has this problem. I'm about ready to wipe & re-install. I have /home separate, so it won't be a real big deal. Just the time to do it. I would however like to find a solution to the problem. I hate giving up and doing a re-install. I have been performing weekly updates through MDK Update. Any bug fixes, security patches & normal upgrades I automatically download. One of those might have been the culprit. The specs on the machine are: Compaq Deskpro, 233 MHz, 192 MB, 3.2 GB, S3 Trio 64V2/DX (built-in) and Intel 82559 Ethernet (built-in). If anybody needs any other hardware specs, let me know. Anybody run into something like this before? Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. Chad
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