> > 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. > > > > > 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.
Thanks, that is the answer, changed to standard effects and OO works. I believe it is a very old box on which he has installed Ubuntu so it must have been the old graphics card. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
