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Deemoney14

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Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] Libreoffice Impress - Horizontal Scroll Broken

So Libreoffice Impress on my setup, even before the big upgrade to 3.4.2, has had this issue where the slide viewer portion of the window actually overlaps the horizontal scroll bar and buttons, which makes them unusable.  I don't know if this is an issue with my DE or if it's an upstream problem, but it's ugly and frustrating when trying to work on something big like a poster.  Right now, the issue shows up with KDE 4.7, I can't remember if I tried this with GNOME 3.

Here's a picture of the problem:

http://postimage.org/image/31eqjbb50/

Suggestions are appreciated.

Last edited by Deemoney14 (2011-08-07 15:31:20)

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jwork123nl

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Libreoffice Impress - Horizontal Scroll Broken

I had this too and solved it (search on this forum after reading this).

It Is caused by native libreoffice.org QT4 integration, which is flaky.
Install and use the gnome integration package libreoffice-gnome.
Not sure if you also need libreoffice-kde4 (for the kde4 file dialogs)
I just installed both of these packages.

And add this line to your /usr/bin/soffice

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome soffice

This forces libreoffice to always use above settings.
But the file /usr/bin/soffice will be written over when you update the packages.
So perhaps it is better to add the export to your bashrc or something.

Good luck and let us know if this works

John

PS In kde 4.7 there is a much improved kde4 compatibility mode for gtk apps under kde4.
This will give you visually better results than the native soffice QT4 integration anyhow.

PPS How is kde4.7 working anyway? I am hesitant to "upgrade" from a .5 point release to a .0 point release.
Is it stable?

Last edited by jwork123nl (2011-08-07 07:53:51)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Libreoffice Impress - Horizontal Scroll Broken

Maybe try https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123858

Deemoney14

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Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Libreoffice Impress - Horizontal Scroll Broken

Thanks for your suggestions.

I went with using the oxygen-gtk theme, installing gtk-kde4 and libreoffice-gnome and uninstalling libreoffice-kde4.

Guess I'll just chill until they work out the bugs.

As far as 4.7 is concerned, I'd say give it some more time if you're using an older version of KDE.  There's some minor wonkiness (very technical term) in some places, most notably the launchers but also with some of the panels and widgets (if you remove the notification widget it wonks out and sometimes messages can take up half the screen, like if you turn off Nepomuk and Aikonadi is still running).  You can work around them, and they've made me much happier with it after coming from GNOME 3.  This libreoffice bug was the last thing annoying me, and now I think I've reached a state I'm fine moving forward from.

Marking as solved.

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