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blank toolbar in open office

Asked by drpjkurian

Hi everybody

I am using ubuntu hardy in dell vostro. everything was fine with my open office when suddenly its toolbar became blank. i tried all the measures as mentioned in the thread 60478 question like downgrading the visual effects as well as upgrading my backport packages. well i was not able to install the open office style.
Either of these measures did not solve my problem of blank toolbar
Please help me

with regards
dr kurian

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#1

OO 3.1?
Peter

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

have you tried completely closing openoffice then renaming

~/.openoffice.org

you can check the case etc with:

cd; ls -a

I can't give the exact command as I find openoffice to be very bloated and only need abiword

once you rename it, you will get a fresh office profile. If you have no special settings for openoffice and the new profile works then you can simply delete the old folder and keep the new profile.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

'Suddenly' isn't likely.
Did you change anything e.g. theme, font, graphics driver?
GNOME, KDE?
Issue only with OpenOffice, or partial, e.g. only with writer but not with impress?
Does it look like this:
http://media.ubuntuusers.de/forum/attachments/1677233/Bildschirmfoto-U.png

Likely not an OpenOffice issue, rather a GNOME issue. (search the web)
Also there are known driver issues e.g. Nvidia legacy.

Choose whatever command you like to get some information via terminal:
lshw -C video
lsmod | egrep -i "radeon|ati|fglrx"
lspci -nn | grep VGA

To check if settings are correct recognized:
xdpyinfo | grep resolution
xdpyinfo | grep dimensions

Sure fonts are installed correctly? Search Synaptic or with CLI:
dpkg -l | grep ii| awk '{print $2}' | grep ttf
##should at least output:
ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-dejavu, ttf-dejavu-core, ttf-dejavu-extra, ttf-freefont, ttf-opensymbol

Options: system preferences -> appearance
#change the theme
#change fonts
#check Antialiasing via Subpixel (LCD)

#visual effects = None
if this is set and still not working, it might be a driver issue as mentioned.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/61961

btw. ubuntuforums.org has a special section for Dell users

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drpjkurian (drpjkurian-gmail) said : 		#4

Hi Sam
i did not find the tab "this solved my problem" to click.
You are great. my problem was solved when i changed the font. Now it is working fine

Thank you for all who responded to my query namely peter, actionparsnip

With regards
drpjkurian