[opensuse] 2 Versions of oo 2.3 Installed on 10.3?
Listmates, OO writer is behaving as if I have two separate versions or instances of 2.3 installed. Sometimes when OO opens a file it opens with all of the nice setting, appearance and user information I have taken great care to set and input. Other times when OO opens a document it open without any of the settings I have chosen and the user information is gone. How can this happen? This first occurred after opening a word (.dot) template. OO writer said something about "loading template ... for the first time" Since then, OO will randomly open with either my settings or with no settings at all (the default setting). I have opened 6 documents in the last 10 minutes. 4 opened fine, 2 opened with the oo default settings. (huge ugly title bar and menu text, huge icons and blank user info) Where do I look to try an fix this? Is there a config setting somewhere that I should check? -- 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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
OO writer is behaving as if I have two separate versions or instances of 2.3 installed. Sometimes when OO opens a file it opens with all of the nice setting, appearance and user information I have taken great care to set and input.
Other times when OO opens a document it open without any of the settings I have chosen and the user information is gone.
screenshots: correct: http://www.rbpllc.com/download/screenshots/oowriter-correct.jpg messed up: http://www.rbpllc.com/download/screenshots/oowriter-incorrect.jpg -- 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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello David, On Thursday 01 November 2007, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
OO writer is behaving as if I have two separate versions or instances of 2.3 installed. Sometimes when OO opens a file it opens with all of the nice setting, appearance and user information I have taken great care to set and input.
Other times when OO opens a document it open without any of the settings I have chosen and the user information is gone. How can this happen? This first occurred after opening a word (.dot) template. OO writer said something about "loading template ... for the first time" Since then, OO will randomly open with either my settings or with no settings at all (the default setting). I have opened 6 documents in the last 10 minutes. 4 opened fine, 2 opened with the oo default settings. (huge ugly title bar and menu text, huge icons and blank user info)
Strange, do you still have these problems? Have you discovered a system in the behavior? For example, does it open the broken version only for a particular file type?
Where do I look to try an fix this? Is there a config setting somewhere that I should check?
First, I would check the "Help/About OpenOffice.org" dialog of the two versions. It try talk about the same version or... Second, I would try to search all installed openoffice packages and look for duplicities: rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice Third, I would verify the installation of the packages: rpm -V `rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice` If it does not show any problem, we might need to debug it... -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Petr Mladek wrote:
Hello David,
On Thursday 01 November 2007, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
OO writer is behaving as if I have two separate versions or instances of 2.3 installed. Sometimes when OO opens a file it opens with all of the nice setting, appearance and user information I have taken great care to set and input.
Other times when OO opens a document it open without any of the settings I have chosen and the user information is gone. How can this happen? This first occurred after opening a word (.dot) template. OO writer said something about "loading template ... for the first time" Since then, OO will randomly open with either my settings or with no settings at all (the default setting). I have opened 6 documents in the last 10 minutes. 4 opened fine, 2 opened with the oo default settings. (huge ugly title bar and menu text, huge icons and blank user info)
Strange, do you still have these problems?
Have you discovered a system in the behavior? For example, does it open the broken version only for a particular file type?
Where do I look to try an fix this? Is there a config setting somewhere that I should check?
First, I would check the "Help/About OpenOffice.org" dialog of the two versions. It try talk about the same version or...
Second, I would try to search all installed openoffice packages and look for duplicities:
rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice
Third, I would verify the installation of the packages:
rpm -V `rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice`
If it does not show any problem, we might need to debug it...
Thanks for your response Petr, (humbly looking for the "stupid" rock to crawl under) Ahh.. I think in this case it was operator induced error. The problem was most likely the result of running Konqueror in super user mode and launching a document from within Konqueror which caused OO to source root's settings and not the users. That is why the OO settings looked so different. Confusing as heck until the light bulb went on. -- 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: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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