openoffice.org-kde broken?

[Way Walker]

I rarely use OpenOffice.org so I'm not sure if this is a new problem since upgrading to Kubuntu 10.10 or not. When I try to use some OpenOffice.org component (e.g. Writer or Calc) it crashes after the splash screen, sometimes flashing the application window or recovery screen for a moment. When I try it on the command line I get:

oowriter
X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource ID: 0x0
Serial No: 630 (630)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging

("env SAL_SYNCHRONIZE=1 oowriter" just removes the last two lines)

This looks similar to the problem being discussed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-o.../msg23249.html
However, they claim it was fixed in OO.o 3.2.

Is there a better solution than removing openoffice.org-kde to get this to work?

[Ole Juul]

Re: openoffice.org-kde broken?

. . . Is there a better solution than removing openoffice.org-kde to get this to work?

I'm not sure that removing it would get it to work. How about trying another version such as the Debian one? Dot debs work just fine in Kubuntu. There's also LibreOffice which is probably your best bet at this point in time unless you're really a fan of Oracle.

[oblivion]

Re: openoffice.org-kde broken?

I rarely use OpenOffice.org so I'm not sure if this is a new problem since upgrading to Kubuntu 10.10 or not. When I try to use some OpenOffice.org component (e.g. Writer or Calc) it crashes after the splash screen, sometimes flashing the application window or recovery screen for a moment. When I try it on the command line I get:

oowriter
X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource ID: 0x0
Serial No: 630 (630)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging

("env SAL_SYNCHRONIZE=1 oowriter" just removes the last two lines)

This looks similar to the problem being discussed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-o.../msg23249.html
However, they claim it was fixed in OO.o 3.2.

Is there a better solution than removing openoffice.org-kde to get this to work?

Hi,

You might want to remove openoffice.org folder. This helped me before in some "similar" cases, maybe it will also help you.

In konsole, type:

rm -R ~/.openoffice.org

Don't worry, Openoffice will create the same folder with default/fresh settings, when you launch it again.

Regards

[Guest]

Re: openoffice.org-kde broken?

Do you happend to be using qt raster engine? That could be the problem, at least that was the error i was getting when using raster engine, it does work ok after switch to default xrender.

[Way Walker]

Re: openoffice.org-kde broken?

Do you happend to be using qt raster engine? That could be the problem, at least that was the error i was getting when using raster engine, it does work ok after switch to default xrender.

This seems to have fixed it. Plasma runs a bit slower, disabled some animations, but it also fixed some issues I had with plasma not painting with compositing. So, overall, my computer's doing better. Thanks!