Re: New Linux Annoyance

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Reilly Burke wrote:

> Today, my big Linux annoyance is OpenOffice.Org which came with my RH9 
> distribution, and which works OK on SOME installations.  But on others, 
> OpenOffice.Org loads with 100-point task-bar fonts, so the entire 
> package is unusable.  Do you think this can be fixed?  Well, after 
> re-installing, scouring the help sources, trying it on Gnome and K 
> desktops, cruising for days on the OpenOffice news groups and help 
> sources, etc, there's not a stick, not an iota of insight as to why 
> OpenOffice.Org is such a basket case (on SOME desktops only)

It /may/ be that your installation reads the X server's dimensions and tries
to set an appropriate font. Have a look in the 'ooffice' script for a
snippet like:

    case C_ALL=C xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | head -1 in
      *640x*pixels*|*800x*pixels*) scale=120;;
      *1152x*pixels*|*1024x*pixels*) scale=110;;
      *) scale=100;;
    esac

Personally, I think that's a pretty gross hack (I think Mandrake started
it... ;-)

I've filed a bug on RH's or OO.o's bugzilla about this, but I can't seem to
find it right now...

> RJ Burke

Alex.
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