[amd64] openoffice menu menus pops up on right side of screen

I confirm the bug.
Kubuntu 6.10 amd64, NVidia, TwinView on:
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"

Menu (main application menu, context menu) is OK in e.g. KWord, AbiWord, but it is not properly shown in OpenOffice writer. It is always shown on right side of the mouse pointer, does not check current desktop border.

please recheck with OOo 2.2.0 in feisty

ok, just checked with feisty beta and OOo 2.2.

With Beryl as my window manager - no bug.
If I start OOo with Openbox as my window manager - bug occurs, menu is far right of rightmost screen.
If I start OOo w/ Beryl, but switch to Openbbox - no bug, unless I move the window from one monitor to the other, then the bug occurs.

Kubuntu 7.04 amd64
I still have the same problem with OpenOffice menu in my KDE 3.5.6.

[Expired for openoffice.org (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

I just tested again and this bug still exists.

Does this problem still happen for you on Ubuntu hardy openoffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3? I can't reproduce this problem on my machine.

I am also experiencing this problem on ArchLinux using Fluxbox 1.0 (which is very similar to Openbox) and Openoffice 2.4. It's very annoying and interferes with productivity. I hope that someone with the skill to fix this takes a look soon! I've scoured the web for a solution, and this is the only thread I could find describing the problem I am having.

Seems that someone has found a solution over at archlinux.org
Source: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10035

Comment by Thibault (thibm) - Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 16:38 GMT
You may comment the following lines

if [ -z $SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN ]; then
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk
fi

in the beginning of /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice.
In fluxbox, menus go back to the right place.

Apparently this bug is 64bit specific and then only on certain window managers. Disabling SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk apparently also makes it so that you can no longer open documents either according to the other thread.

I have just verified that the problem still occurs on my machine running hardy. (I didn't try the fix above as I am no longer using openbox as my window manager, so this only verifies that it is not yet fixed in the standard packages).

And yes, I am also running 64 bit (don't know how I failed to mention that before, sorry).

Bjorn,

On Hardy what window manager are you using where you experience this problem?

Thanks,

Chris

The Arch Linux folks have this fixed in 2.4.1
see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10035

I should have been more clear: I checked and verified that the bug still occurs when I switch to openbox and test it. Normally I use Compiz these days and there is no problem.

Since Arch apparently claimed it was fixed in 2.4.1 can you try hardy with current updates to see if 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 works for you?

Thanks,

Chris

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Sorry it took me so long to get a chance to test this - I just did an 'openbox --replace' to switch to openbox as my window manager and the bug still repros for me on Hardy with the latest updates.

Reproducible in 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8.

No problem for me, amd64, openbox 3.4.7.2-3, openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2

Can you still reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)?

I got a report above that this no longer happens on amd64 with openbox 3.4.7.2-3...

It looks like if this still really does exist it will be fixed when we put OOo 3.0.0 into Jaunty next month.

Chris

Can you still reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)? You can download a test (desktop) live cd from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Attached is a screenshot of this problem as exhibited by the xmonad window manager. Clicking on the "File" menu in oowriter pops the menu up at the bottom right of the screen.

Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 8.10
uname: Linux troy 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Package: xmonad
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8-1

Package: openoffice.org-core
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1

This is fixed in Jaunty with OOo 3.0.