[arch-general] Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?

[Angel Velásquez]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Listmates,
>>
> <snip>
>>       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-text.jpg
>
>        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.

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