The resize grips have been introduced in natty and are not present in maverick and lucid. There are gtk+2.0 packages backported to maverick in a PPA (https://edge.launchpad.net/~bratsche/+archive/gtk) and installing them I can reproduce the bug with openoffice.org also.
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