Bug#241529: possible breakthrough?

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

OK, messed around a bit and did NOT solve the problem but can tell you
this:

-I made a new user "ootest" and ofund that she exhibited the same
behaviour as my regular user:

-no menus or dialog text visible form within xfce3, xfce4 or enlightenment
-works fine in gnome 2.4 (I don't have kde working right now, so can't
check there).  

-OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none  /usr/bin/oowriter does NOT help me in those
environments.

However:  from within gnome, using
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none /usr/bin/oowriter REPRODUCED THE BUG from
within gnome!  

so I wondered:  
what exactly does the variable OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP do?  What other
values can I assign it?  Can I use it to figure out where the problem
lies?  

Anyway, seemed hopeful -- pls get back to me if this seems helpful.

matt