Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone
On Thursday January 9 2003 10:02 pm, Chad wrote: 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. Edit /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf # If set to AUTO, ooffice will choose the UI font according to the # current UI language, the first time you start in that # language. Otherwise, this shall match the actual font name. UI_FONT=arial ^and put arial here instead of AUTO, then save the change. OOo will then have text on the menus. Newer versions of openoffice also have this fixed -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone
On Friday 10 January 2003 04:02, Chad wrote: I've searched with Google and through the Newbie/Expert archives for this, but to no avail. OK this is seemingly starting to be a FAQ. this problem appears whenever you update your QT/XFT/Freetype libs. OO cannot work properly with the newer versions. This results in text sized 8pt and lower not to be rendered in OpenOffice. the menus/toolbars/dialogs in OO are all size 8, so there ya go. This is a workaround to make the fonts come back, but it may or may not work for you. Feel free to try it out. 1) Open up oowriter 2) Go, in the main menu (that would be the one containing File, Edit and so on), to the 6th menu. 3) Select the last option in that menu. 4) a small window will pop up, containing a column of + signs on the left. Those are the trees or sections for the different options in OO. 5) Expand the first tree by clicking on the + at the top. (this may already be open and you would see a - at the top. If so, proceed.) 6) You will now see the branches of that first tree. Select the 9th branch. 7) you will now see, on the right hand of this window, a checkbox at the top, below the checkbox you will see two dropdown listboxes, and a big listbox taking up the rest of the space. at the right of the two drop-down listboxes, you will see two buttons, one with a tick, and the other one with a cross on them. 8)The bis listbox has one line in it (of course you cannot read it). But you can see two empty squares on that line. Select this line by clicking on it. 9) the empty sqares un that line are checkboxes. Check them both. 10)also check the first checkbox at the top of this pane. 11) Go to the drop-down listbox on the right (the one closer to the buttons with the tick and the cross) and type the word Lucida on it. 12) Click the button with the green tick. 13) below the big listbox there are four big buttons. Click the first one (the one at the left). 14) Cross your fingers. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 menu items gone
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:02:16 -0500 Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 There was a thread about this in the December archives, but in short here are a few things to try. First, if you installed any version of freetype2 other than what came with Mandrake, you will need to uninstall it and reinstall the original. It seems that the later versions of freetype2 are broken. If that's not the case (or even if it is), you might try editing /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf and change the line that UI_FONT=AUTO to something like UI_FONT=Verdana or something like that. You may also have to change the FONT_SCALING setting, too. If the UI_FONT isn't set to AUTO, you might try setting it as such. If neither of those work, you might check out www.ooodocs.org and see if anyone there can help. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
