Interesting Totem and OpenOffice.org Writer Interaction

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Dec 27 04:24:03 UTC 2011


On 12/27/2011 12:04 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
>
> Just an observation, not a bug report.
>
> I just discovered an interesting interaction between Totem Movie
> Player 2.32.0 using GStreamer 0.10.31 and OpenOffice.org Writer 3.3.0
>
> There is a bug that causes OpenOffice.org Writer to spontaneously open
> the menu bar when Totem is running.  It's like you're accidentally
> hitting the [Alt] key.  Very interesting.  Even happens when you are
> not typing in the OpenOffice.org Writer screen.  It only happens when
> Totem is actively playing a music file.  When the playback ends so
> does the odd behavior.  Weird hey.
>

Well....  F16, Totem Player 3.2.1 & GStreamer 0.10.35 and LibreOffice
3.4.4. under KDE.  No issue.

Can we safely assume you are running F14 or?

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