Re: Open Office Hangs...

[René Seindal <rene@seindal.dk>]

Will Ness wrote:
> Hello again!!
>
> I recently installed Open Office through apt-get, the install went 
> nicely. However when I start up KDE, and select for instance, 
> OpenOffice.org Writer, all I get is the Open Office splash screen, and 
> nothing else, it just sits there and hangs. Is there a solution to this? 
> I would really like to have some producvity software on my box. TIA!!

OOo has problems with certain graphics drivers which can cause a hang, 
or at least used to.

Try setting the environ variable SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true


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René Seindal (rene@seindal.dk)
Seindal Consult