Bug 149923 – openoffice-bin 2.0.3: some apps open in OO desktop

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Smiffy 2006-10-02 23:59:22 UTC]

When opening calc, impress, draw, the applications open in what looks like the old Star Office desktop (can't be minimised, etc).  

This occurs whether invoked as oocalc2, /usr/lib/openoffice/program/scalc or even /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -calc.  (Using calc as an example.)

Web, math, base and writer all open in the desired (normal window) manner.

Window manager is Fluxbox.

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17.6 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Last Sync: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo "
LC_ALL="en_US"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://prospero/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups dba dif dlloader dri dts eds elibc_glibc exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gmp gpm gtk gtk2 input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python readline reflection rtc session soap spl ssl svg symlink tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_savage video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-10-03 03:57:05 UTC]

Do you have a screenshot which illustrates the problem?

[Comment 2 Smiffy 2006-10-03 05:02:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you have a screenshot which illustrates the problem?
> 
Normal behaviour from writer:
http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/writerss.jpg

Behaviour typical of calc and others:
http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/calcss.jpg

Close calc using X at top right, we are left with OO desktop:
http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/oodesktop.jpg

[Comment 3 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-10-04 11:13:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Do you have a screenshot which illustrates the problem?
> > 
> Normal behaviour from writer:
> http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/writerss.jpg
> 
> Behaviour typical of calc and others:
> http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/calcss.jpg
> 
> Close calc using X at top right, we are left with OO desktop:
> http://www.smiffysplace.com/files/oodesktop.jpg
> 

Hmm, interesting, never seen this, must be a problem with the Fluxbox window manager. Anyway: Could you please post this upstream, as we take the binary directly from openoffice.org, there is nothing we can do about that...

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/