When started from the commandline it seemed to work ok, but then it hung upon saving the file (at choosing save as from the file menu). Not just openoffice hung, but the entire desktop didn't respond to mouse or keyboard events. Windows from other programs (xosview, konsole) were updating during this.
I'm going to try the packages from openoffice.org now, because it seems the unbuntu version has problems. -- Openoffice deadlock if starting Impress whilst writer/calc open dialog visible https://launchpad.net/bugs/64813 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs