-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norman Silverstone wrote: > My brother is venturing into the land of Ubuntu and has installed (so he > tells me) 8.10. He is happy as can be with everything he has tried so > far with the exception Of OpenOffice. He reports that when he runs the > application he is presented with a screen with no bars at all including > the menu bar. Also, when he types in the page he gets no letters just > dashes. Has anyone any idea, please, on what he should do to get Office > running I would hate to lose a potential convert. > > Norman > > Iam using 8.10 and have had similar issues with compiz enabled, if I have standard effects as in the first radio button option in the desktop effects list, it works
I am using a nvidia geforce 4 graphics card, so kinda old, perhaps he has a similar card using legacy drivers. so try turning off the destop effects. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpPz5wACgkQaggq1k2FJq3uewCeNI8P4H1dlYly2FtDzpQvdMpZ FB4An1L7CaQjWGlfOVs38xiEx9fPIrmV =28GF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
