F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities

[Joel Rees]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:53 PM, nomnex <nomnex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:18:00 +0900
>> Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lenovo S-100 pseudo-netbook (intel 64 running 32 bit) with Fedora
>> installed from the F16 Security spin (LXDE) live USB.
>>
>> Posted earlier, no response, about it generally hanging the X11
>> session on logout if I switch to a virtual console to do something
>> while logged in on an X11 session. Can telinit 2 and 5 to get it back
>> once or twice.
>>
>> Trying to use LibreOffice, if I open more than one document, quitting
>> tends to kill the panel, leaving things in an awkward, partially
>> functioning state. Can keep doing things I don't need the panel for.
>>
>> I'm sure I need some library for LibreOffice that didn't get picked up
>> in the dependency check when I installed it. Anyone have a suggestion?
>
> The cause is likely the LXPanel only. You could search for the thread:
> Re: [PM] lxpanel keeps crashing with Libre Office, on the lxde mailing
> archive list. There is a workaround (but it is not very productive).
>
> Or: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803098 for information.

Okay, that does look like it's not a LibreOffice issue.

> LXDE panel has currently no maintainer

Oh. Not good news. Kind of wish I had time to volunteer, but I have
too many other things at higher priority, so that's never going to
happen.

> and I was collecting all the
> bugs on this particular notebook, among which: LO, ibus, Firefox icons
> were making the panel freeze.
>
> I have installed xfce-panel, at last. And everything works fine now.

I've been happy with XFCE, so I just installed that (and sugar, for
fun) yesterday, and there are no problems in XFCE sessions.

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Joel Rees