When I open Writer using KDE 4 and a Nvidia card (tried with both repository and Nvidia drivers) The desktop environment goes all funny. Panel starts to have blank spaces where task bar icons should be, inverted colors in menus and the text and icons don’t show until you hover over them. The interesting thing is that Calc works fine as well as Impress, it is only Writer that causes problems.
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As to the problem, it does seem strange!
Try starting Office writer from a terminal see if by any chance some errors appear
Hi, this is a known bug in the nvidia driver, in fact there have been many threads in different forums on this topic and I think nvidia r aware of this issue
they seem to be having trouble reproducing this but they know it exists, even on novell’s bugzilla there was a bug report on this topic and has been closed cause its been confirmed to be in the driver.
just wait for a future version of the driver to fix this issue, yes I know its annoying, I have been using abiword on my nvidia machines instead of writer
Thank you all for your replies. I will just be patient I guess. I have 4 different computers all running OpenSUSE 11.0. The video cards are 2 Nvidias, 1 ATI, 1 Savage. This is only happening on my old Nvidia 7300 GS. My newer Nvidia 8600 GT runs flawlessly other than darn slow transparent terminal. The thing that is really saddening, is the error shows up on a computer that is typically used by Windows users and it makes Linux look bad to them when it really is not Linux or OpenSUSE’s fault.
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> Thank you all for your replies. I will just be patient I guess. I have
> 4 different computers all running OpenSUSE 11.0. The video cards are 2
> Nvidias, 1 ATI, 1 Savage. This is only happening on my old Nvidia 7300
> GS. My newer Nvidia 8600 GT runs flawlessly other than darn slow
> transparent terminal. The thing that is really saddening, is the error
> shows up on a computer that is typically used by Windows users and it
> makes Linux look bad to them when it really is not Linux or OpenSUSE’s
> fault.
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Are you using any of the desktop effects or compiz on that machine?
And a long shot…
Have you tried toggling the 3D and Graphics options under Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org (on left) -> View ?
The ‘use hardware acceleration’ and ‘Use OpenGL’ options might be useful.
I am using KDE 4.1 on all of the machines and it does not appear to matter if using advanced graphics or not. I will try to toggle that option in OpenOffice the next time I am on that computer. Thanks for the suggestion, hadn’t thought of that one.
Yep same issue here. This affects other apps too, like Eclipse and Thunderbird (when compose new message). Another thread on this subject: Eclipse and KDE4.1 panel/kicker - openSUSE Forums
It doesn’t appear to be an OpenSuSe issue.
Ok, finally I’ve found it in /usr/lib/qt3/bin, BTW I can’t fix the problem with this hack.