Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?
Listmates, I have run into a strange issue with openoffice in Arch. I am using kdemod3 on my Toshiba x86_64 laptop. All Arch packages have been synced and are up to date. The graphics are provided by the radeonhd driver on an ATI M690 (x1200) chipset. In openoffice writer, when you hover over the "style" "font" or "size" combo boxes in the main toolbar, the text in the combo box disappears. The combo box display literally goes blank. If you activate the combo box to see the list of styles, fonts, etc.., the text is then visible. However, when you move your mouse up and down the list, the text under your cursor disappears as well. I have also noticed the same behavior with the pull-down menu text although to a lesser extent. Usually with the menus, only the last 1 or 2 menu entries disappears when a mouseover happens. I have tried with and without compiz - no difference. Has anyone else seen this behavior. It's a very frustrating issue to try and work with blanks in your toolbar. I am also cc'ing this to the radeonhd list in case it is related to the driver. I have the same setup (same laptop) with suse 11.0 with the same openoffice version, but all is fine there. I am trying to determine whether this is an Arch package issue, an openoffice issue, or a radeonhd issue. Since oo works fine on suse 11.0 with the fglrx driver, I think we can eliminate it being an oo issue. That leave the potential of it being an Arch package issue or a radeonhd issue. I don't know how to test to determine which it is. Can anybody think of a test that could be run to narrow it down? I will switch to the radeon driver and test, but beyond that, I can't think of anything else to try. Any thoughts? --- Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
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I am also cc'ing this to the radeonhd list in case it is related to the driver. I have the same setup (same laptop) with suse 11.0 with the same openoffice version, but all is fine there. I am trying to determine whether this is an Arch package issue, an openoffice issue, or a radeonhd issue.
Since oo works fine on suse 11.0 with the fglrx driver, I think we can eliminate it being an oo issue. That leave the potential of it being an Arch package issue or a radeonhd issue. I don't know how to test to determine which it is.
Can anybody think of a test that could be run to narrow it down? I will switch to the radeon driver and test, but beyond that, I can't think of anything else to try. Any thoughts? --- Thanks.
Hmm..., This is looking more like an Arch packaging issue. I tested on another Arch x86_64 machine with the same setup but that box has an NVidia 8800GT card in it. Same results. I went ahead and captured a screenshot to provie additional detail: Here is a shot showing blank Style and Font Size combo boxes in oo-writer. The text in the boxes randomly comes back and then disappears again after a hover or an activate of the combo box. Note the cursor is in the Font combo-box so there is no reason the Style or Size boxes should be blank. http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/oo-writer-disappearing-te... Here is a screenshot of the version information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/oo-writer-version.jpg If somebody else can confirm, I'll write the bug report. "Where" is the issue again, arch or chakra? Let me know if you have any additional information. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Jun 02, 09 11:14:16 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
In openoffice writer, when you hover over the "style" "font" or "size" combo boxes in the main toolbar, the text in the combo box disappears. The combo box display literally goes blank.
If you activate the combo box to see the list of styles, fonts, etc.., the text is then visible. However, when you move your mouse up and down the list, the text under your cursor disappears as well.
Can you validate this with using e.g. the fbdev driver? This sounds as either a general Xserver, or even an ooffice bug to me.
Since oo works fine on suse 11.0 with the fglrx driver, I think we can eliminate it being an oo issue. That leave the potential of it being an Arch package issue or a radeonhd issue. I don't know how to test to determine which it is.
Hm. I think the fglrx driver is replacing quite a number of subsystems
in the Xserver, so it could still be an Xorg Xserver issue.
Matthias
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