XFCE display issues with OpenOffice

**ugm6hr** · August 8th, 2010

Originally Posted by Hagar de l'Est

Never had any issue with xubuntu. Try the Sun version: [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.

Waiting for someone to confirm they have the same issue before trying to fix it by messing with my system at this stage.

I quite like using apt for the update system.

**Hagar Delest** · August 8th, 2010

First time I see that issue in forums. I don't think you'll have any confirmation...

Try perhaps to reset your OOo user profile but don't transfer your personal data during the welcome process (if you had 2.x before), configuration files from the former version might corrupt the new profile.

Is it a standard installation of xubuntu?

**ugm6hr** · August 8th, 2010

It was Ubuntu + xubuntu-desktop. From the standard repo.

Renaming the user folder didn't change anything.

**Hagar Delest** · August 9th, 2010

I'm not sure that installing the xubuntu-desktop packages in addition to an initial Ubuntu install is the same as a blank xubuntu install. I've experienced some strange things when doing that. I don't remember such bugs but small hints showing that the effect was not exactly from the current session.

**jgratero** · February 16th, 2011

Same issue over, here, Xubuntu 10.04, OpenOffice 3.2... Any updates on this one?

**ugm6hr** · February 17th, 2011

I never fixed it.
Ended up moving to Gnome when I upgraded to 10.10 - its no longer a problem.

**scramblejams** · February 17th, 2011

Same problem here. Not just maximizing but also resizing, does all sorts of weird things. I fled from Gnome because of some unrelated issues, and I like XFCE so I don't want to change. Enabling or disabling compositing hasn't helped.

The problem isn't necessarily Ubuntu-specific, I'm on Debian unstable. Don't know if it matters, but I'm using an Nvidia card with the closed-source driver. No other app I've tried seems to exhibit this issue.

Steve