I fixed the problem on mine back when I removed the settings directory.  But
I think before I solved the problem, I did try it with compiz disabled and
that didn't help.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does disabling compiz (System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual
> Effects->None) cause the flickering to go away?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Open Office spreadsheet window management disappears
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229710
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in "openoffice.org" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: openoffice.org
>
> Open Office Spreadsheet app opens maximized to use my entire screen.  It
> blocks the regular Gnome menus at the top and the taskbar at the bottom.
>  There is no window management anymore.  Stated another way: the file, edit,
> .etc menus are shoved all the way to the very top left of the screen and the
> status bar goes all the way to the bottom.
>
> I tried using the taskbar keyboard commands to move the window, unmaximize,
> minimize, and otherwise manipulate the window to get it out of this state,
> but nothing worked.  I rebooted and reinstalled the open office package, but
> could not resolve the issue.
>
> I finally deleted the home/user/.openoffice.org2 directory and that got it
> back to normal, but also trashes my settings, of course.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon May 12 12:51:29 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
> PackageArchitecture: amd64
> ProcEnviron:
>
>  
> PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: openoffice.org
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64
>


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