Open Office not working properly on Kubuntu 7.10
Ever since I upgraded to Gutsy Gibson (7.10), Open Office has been having problems. It would open fine, but everyime I tried to access the menu, the screen would redraw and the menu would disappear. It wasn’t a huge deal, as I could shortcut most things, such as saving, undoing, bolding and closing the window. The deal breaker though, was the fact that I was unable to toggle between OpenOffice and other windows. This was causing problems as I like to take copious notes as I learn things about Linux. Being a relative noob, I had lots of notes to take recently while setting up SVN with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and getting rsync to push Subversion exports out to my prod server.
I finally resorted to using google docs to keep my notes, which I may keep doing. Finally I stumbled upon a posting that detailed how to fix the problem. Sounds like Compiz and legacy settings are the cause. Here’s what to do:
- Setting -> Advanced Desktop Effects
- Scroll down to very near the bottom, and click on Workarounds (the icon is a bandaid
) - Uncheck Legacy Full Screen Support
Presto, no more problems with Open Office redrawing itself every time I try to access the menu!