GUI gone mad

foxjwill · Newbie Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

This is really odd. I open OpenOffice.org and all the buttons appear normally on the screen. But the instant I hover my mouse over any of them, all the buttons disappear but the one I'm hovered over.

I use Dapper with GNOME.

I hope I included enough detail.

By the way. This seems to only happen when I use GNOME. So, I've been forced to open a KDE session any time I want to use it.

[img]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=15427&d=1157631621[/img]

9point9 · Moderator Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 3875 Location: UK

You're not alone:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=45792&highlight=
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=45561&highlight=
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=39966&highlight=
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=36318&highlight=

All Dapper Drake. Ominous. Are you using the OOo official packages or ones from Ubuntu? Perhaps the Ubuntu forums may be a better place to look for a solution but it would be definitely nice to have an answer here as it's obviously some system problem that's affecting a number of users.
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foxjwill · Newbie Joined: 22 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

I posted to Ubuntu Forums, but nobody knew what to do.

Kaaredyret · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

Are you using the OOo official packages (did you download them from openoffice.org) or ones from Ubuntu?

If you use packages from Ubuntu, Download OOo from openoffice.org, convert the RPM packages to DEB and install.

Open source also means that everyone can mess up with the code. They sure do in some distributions.
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Hagar Delest · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

Do you have the gtk2-engines-gtk-qt package installed ?
It seems this is the root cause but I'm not 100% sure of it. Removing it has solved the issue for some.
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Hagar Delest · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

I confirm there is a fix, see here : http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=182997.
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