Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. Yes, as far as I could tell, the whole of the application was locked up. Thanks for the tip on "kill -9" : I'll try to remember it for next time.
Robin On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Mark Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/7/09, Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI Folks, > > > > I just installed openoffice 2.0 on my system (debian 4.0, amd64) > kpackage. > > But when I open openoffice writer it wouldn't close in spite of: clicking > > the close button on the top left corner of the window; clicking on close > in > > the drop-down menu; pressing alt-f4; shutting down and restarting the > > computer. I eventually got it closed using the "X Kill Window > Termination > > Tool". I then purged openoffice. > > > > The take-home message is ---- don't use openoffice 2.0 with debian 4.0 > and > > amd64. > > > > Robin > > That's too bad. I noticed a similar but opposite problem with MS Word > 2007. If you double-click the menu in the top-left, the program > crashed without saving any changes :-(. Unfortunately it was often a > double-whammy if you are trying to do a "save as..." and accidently > double-click! > > Was the entire OpenOffice Writer application unresponsive when you > were trying to close it? Usually a "kill -9" will kill the > application, unless the application is stuck in the kernel (shows up > as in "D" state when doing a "ps -ax". > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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