Bug 321371 – app-office/openoffice-3.2.0 shows dialogs incorrectly in Xfce

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Vladimir 2010-05-24 22:08:20 UTC]

app-office/openoffice-3.2.0 shows some dialog windows incorrectly when they don't fit into the screen.
For example, when I press "Zoom" button, a dialog window titled "Zoom & View Layout" appears, but it is empty. Moreover, it doesn't show even its canvas. Instead the window has just a borders with a backgroud inside them. (see screenshot #1).
  This works fine on my other machine with KDE3.5, 1024x768 (maybe a screen resolution matters) and refuses to work properly on my laptop with Xfce and 1280x800.

  By the way, the "Insert sheet" dialog shows a similar behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start OpenOffice Calc in Xfce
2. Press "Zoom" button on the Calc's toolbox.
3. See the incorrectly displayed dialog window.
4. Try to resize this dialog window with mouse, for example.

Actual Results:  
The dialog window doesn't show its real contents and cannot be used in such state. If I resize this window, I will see the contents (radio buttons, buttons, etc.), but all those components are  disproportionate, but they can at least be used in such state.(see screenshot #2).

Expected Results:  
Should show the dialog window correctly.

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-x86_64-Mobile_AMD_Sempron-tm-_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p5
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~amd64 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL skype-eula"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/mnt/data/Install/GNU-LinuxSoft/distfiles/"
FEATURES="assume-digests distcc distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="/mnt/lan/data/Install/GNU-LinuxSoft/distfiles/                 http://gentoo.kiev.ua/ftp/ ftp://gentoo.kiev.ua/"
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/mnt/data/Install/GNU-LinuxSoft/binpkg/"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 64bit 7zip X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 amrnb amrwb apm arts ass atm audiofile avahi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bzip2 cairo calendar cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cgi clamav cli cracklib crypt ctype curl curlwrappers cxx dbm dbus dbx dga djvu dri dssi dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd evo exif expat faac faad fastcgi fbcon fbcondecor festival ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flatfile freetds ftp fuse gd gdbm geoip gif gimp ginac git glut gmp gnuplot gnustep gnutls gsl hal hddtemp htmlhandbook icc iconv icq idn imlib inifile innodb irc jabber jack javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kerberos krb4 lame laptop lash latex ldap leim libcaca libnotify libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors lua lzo mad maildir matroska matrox mcal mhash mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug modules motiff mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap mule multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opencore-amr opengl openmp osc pam pcntl pdf plotutils pmu png posix pppd prelude profile python qt3support qt4 quicktime radius readline recode reflection rss rtc ruby samba sasl sdl session sharedmem shorten simplexml skins slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 sox speex spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs syslog systray sysvipc szip taglib tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff timidity truetype unicode usb vcd vhosts vorbis wavpack wddx webkit x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xface xine xinerama xml xml-rpc xorg xosd xpm xsl xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Vladimir 2010-05-24 22:09:41 UTC]

Created attachment 232789 [details]
screenshot #1

This screenshot displays an incorrect depiction of Zoom dialog window.

[Comment 2 Vladimir 2010-05-24 22:11:04 UTC]

Created attachment 232791 [details]
screenshot #2

This screenshot demonstrates the view of Zoom dialog box after I had stretched it a bit to the left and to the top.

[Comment 3 Vladimir 2010-07-29 08:48:30 UTC]

Created attachment 240553 [details]
screenshot #3

The same thing with OpenOffice-3.2.1.3.
For example, a "Insert sheet" dialog box (screenshot #3).

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-09-07 15:14:00 UTC]

What GTK+ Theme and Engine are you using in Xfce4?

[Comment 5 Vladimir 2010-09-07 20:39:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> What GTK+ Theme and Engine are you using in Xfce4?
> 

I'm not sure I understand you right, but I use "Xfce" theme from x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-2.6.0 package and the "Default" theme for window decorations (from xfce-base/xfwm4-4.6.2 package, again if I'm not mistaking).

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-01-18 12:06:55 UTC]

Try with Xfce 4.8 (gtk-engines-2.8.0, xfwm4-4.8.0, etc).   Reopen if the problem is still there.

[Comment 7 Vladimir 2011-01-18 20:39:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Try with Xfce 4.8 (gtk-engines-2.8.0, xfwm4-4.8.0, etc).   Reopen if the
> problem is still there.
> 
I have checked it today. The problem still exists.

[Comment 8 Vladimir 2011-02-24 17:38:29 UTC]

  Hello!
  I have installed LibreOffice-3.3.0 several days ago and noticed that I didn't use the "gtk" USE flag for openoffice before. I wasn't actually sure about what did this flag mean, but I decided to try turning it on for the LibreOffice and it turned out that with this flag LibreOffice shows all the dialog windows correctly in Xfce.
  Unfortunately, it isn't too easy for me to compile such heavy packages on my laptop, so I cannot try the "gtk" USE flag for OpenOffice-3.2.1 right now. Maybe, I'll try to build it on my home PC on the weekend to see if this actually is the cause of the problem.

  Meanwhile - LibreOffice-3.3.0 with "gtk" USE flag works fine in Xfce-4.8.

[Comment 9 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2011-07-29 13:03:58 UTC]

Long story, short summary: When you use Xfce you really should have the gtk use flag set, nothing we can do here.