I'm having a problem seeing menus in 1.1.0-2 (I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer). It seems to be the same problem as has been described a few other times, and I was wondering what the status of this bug is.
Seems to be the same bug as #172448 from about a year ago. http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2002/debian-openoffice-200212/msg00239.html It's also described at cvs.debian.org http://cvs.debian.org/oo-debian-files/doc/README.Debian?cvsroot=debian-openoffice&rev=1.23 >> 2. Normal height, menu bar looks like ' ___ ___ ___ __ __ ' This is a problem observed with the current versions of libfreetype in Debian. We have disabled the use of this libfreetype until we have determined the cause of the problem, but users of older version of the packages may see this. >> I'm running gnome2 and have libfreetype6 2.1.5-3 installed (I'm using the most recent unstable version of debian for updates). I thought it might be a problem of having too recent a version of libfreetype, so I tried downgrading to libfreetype6 2.0.9-1 (the stable release) but this didn't help. One weird effect is that moving the text over the menus sometimes makes the text temporarily appear. When it does, the font looks fine. But this only works in certain places on the menus. I tried installing xft (libxft2 2.1.2-4) but this didn't seem to make any difference either. As for hardware issues, the only thing that I can think of is that I'm running debian on my laptop through vmware, and I manually adjusted the XF86Config-4 file to allow my screen resolution of 1400x1050 to work. To do this, I tweaked the screen resolution and the hsync rate. Anyway, is this normal that I can't get openoffice writer to show menus correctly? Or am I doing something wrong? Do I have to somehow manually disable use of libfreetype? Thanks for any help. Jeff Chuang
