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please preset Gnome appearance always with "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" even when you are runnning a different desktop!

Is it a mainstream bug? That fixes the problem, anyway, I thought it's defaulting if i don't have the variable exported at all...

One could check if this is also reproducable with the official build from openoffice.org.

Could be hard - would probably need to completely do the install manually.
OOo Binary Distribution either needs rpm or the deb command (to extract / install files).

I couldn't find any packages bringing any of those package management tools for arch. Probably I just didn't look close enough ;-)

I can confirm this bug. OOo 3 freezes when opening menu "Tools"....this is in console:

[progdan@notas ~]$ soffice -writer

(process:5345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init()prior to this function

(process:5345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed

(process:5345): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(process:5345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init()prior to this function

(process:5345): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(process:5345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2458: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init()prior to this function

(process:5345): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

I'm running KDE 4. It occurs with OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="kde" and also with ="gnome".

Using Arch64:
- the freeze occurs event with OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
- the freeze also occurs when you try to enter the 'Window' menu
- the freeze occurs in twm and kde4

Try to run from console:

OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome soffice

This works for me.
I am running KDE 4.

Without OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome OpenOffice freezes:
* sometimes when started from console with "soffice" command - spash screen shows, progress reaches 100% and then nothing happens
* when running "soffice -writer" program loads, and freeze occurs when I type space or when I enter Tools menu

When those freezes occur, processor is at 100% until I kill OpenOffice.

The gnome UI is slow and ugly on KDE. Any possibility of fixing this? I've found I can configure most things in gnome mode (with the exception of the UI font size), and then switch back to KDE to have speed, and better looks.

I'm sure we could figure this out and hack a fix together.

I can confirm this bug.

@ Georg Grabler (STiAT)

>Could be hard - would probably need to completely do the install manually.
>OOo Binary Distribution either needs rpm or the deb command (to extract / install files).

As far as I know you don't need special tools to extract debs. Maybe you can extract them using gzip etc.

Argh, i should have put me on the comment notificaiton >.<.

I'll test that tomorrow.

I found a way to fix the uglyassed fonts in gnome mode...here's a PKGBUILD that should fix it.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22147

openoffice-base I: File ['opt/openoffice/basis-link/program/libvcllx.so', 'opt/openoffice/basis-link/program/libvclplug_gtklx.so', 'opt/openoffice/basis-link/program/fps_gnome.uno.so', 'opt/openoffice/basis-link/program/cairocanvas.uno.so'] link-level dependence on freetype2

there shouldn't be any problem with the freetype2 pkg from extra repo.

do users with that problem have a custom cairo package installed?

I'm running arch64
I need to do "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" and then to launch "soffice" in the same terminal, or it crash (splash screen frozen at 100%).
I tried different files, like my openbox autostart configuration file, but the only thing that "works" is adding the export line directly in soffice (I think it will broke on every update).

I'm going to close this one. the "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" is included for a while and solved - so closing this one as "fxied". for everything else please open new reports and also give the openoffice-base-beta and -devel a try where many upstream issues are solved.