Open Office 3.2 Issues in Fedora 12

[Alexis Pardo]

> Thanks, Ariel. I followed your indications, however, both of them does not
> work for me. I don't know why this is happening with my fedora system.
>
> a) I did it (nothing happened)
> b) It's ok.
>
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> *Note: WHen I use this command "yum group install office". Yum installs
> OOo 3.1 and the look of this program is great. Look at this image
> *


http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6117/pantallazost.png


> *
> According to my escenario, Is there a way to say yum "install 00o 3.2"?
> Maybe OOo improve its appearance.*
>
> Thanks
>
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> Thanks a lot.
>
> Saludos,
>
> Alexis
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> 2010/4/11 Ariel Constenla-Haile <ariel.constenla.haile at googlemail.com>
>
>> Hello Alexis,
>>
>>
>> On Sunday 11 April 2010, 17:51, Alexis Pardo wrote:
>> > Thanks, Ariel:
>> >
>> > As you said, I'm using gnome under Fedora 12. My open office version is
>> > 3.2. Please, look at the attached files. The second one (2.png) is my
>> > problem. Look at these elements: menu bar, tool bar, scroll bars (H &
>> V),
>> > status bar... There's a problem. It seems there's no integration between
>> > my gnome and the OOo, unlike your image.
>> >
>> > I hope you can understand me. Sorry for my english level.
>>
>> I see what's happening there (you can sure confirm by looking at the menu
>> in
>> http://arielch.fedorapeople.org/images/OOo_vcl_plugin_gen.png ): OOo is
>> painting the UI itself, not using native widgets. This is really strange,
>> running inside a Gnome desktop env.
>>
>> Please try the following:
>>
>> a) open a terminal and export the following env. vars.:
>>
>> ~]$  export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk";export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome"
>>
>> then invoke OOo executable from within that same shell.
>> Does OOo look like a Gnome app.?
>>
>> b) If the above does not work, then something is wrong with the vcl gtk
>> plug-
>> in. Either the library is missing, or it has linking issues, or ...
>> Do the following:
>>
>> Go to /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program
>>
>> ~]$ cd /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program
>>
>> Check you have the gtk vcl plug-in library:
>>
>> program]$ ls -l libvclplug_gtk*.so
>>
>> should output something like:
>>
>> -r--r--r--. 1 root root 383640 feb 13 09:16 libvclplug_gtklx.so
>>
>> If you have that library, try seeing if there is some linking issue:
>>
>> program]$ ldd -v libvclplug_gtkl*.so
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Ariel Constenla-Haile
>> La Plata, Argentina
>>
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