From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030303 Description of problem: Attempting to start oosetup for the 1st time after installing openoffice-1.0.2-4.i386.rpm, openoffice-i18n-1.0.2-4.i386.rpm, openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4.i386.rpm results in bad user experience and totally unusable openoffice environment. Attached picture of oosetup on a 1400x1050 screen. Haven't figured out yet where it gets the font settings from. oosetup seems to be a interesting little script that does a lot of weird and wonderful sed translations on XML data... Am able to reproduce this on two separate systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openoffice 1.0.2-4 2. run oosetup/writer/etc. 3. Actual Results: Huge fonts preventing any sane actions inside the program. Expected Results: Should use smaller fonts. Additional info:
Hard to get screen capture of the situation as gimp/xwd report pretty much the same (example below) X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x57807c0 Serial number of failed request: 529 Current serial number in output stream: 529 xwud: Error => Unable to read dump file header. X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x8050760 Serial number of failed request: 1034 Current serial number in output stream: 1034
Estimate font size over 72 or so, no buttons visible at all.
Created attachment 91382 [details] Screen capture showing problem This is what starting oowriter looks like, huge fonts, huge buttons, etc. :-)
Found the problem. ;-) Seems like openoffice is actually interested in the DPI settings returned by X11. xpdyinfo stated: (before fixing) screen #0: dimensions: 1400x1050 pixels (60x40 millimeters) resolution: 593x667 dots per inch depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 Now: screen #0: dimensions: 1400x1050 pixels (301x220 millimeters) resolution: 118x121 dots per inch depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 I have no clue what so ever where the 60x40 got entered into /etc/X11/XF86Config but fixing those fixed the font problem with OO. Alternatively one could use redhat-config-xfree86 to fix this. Works for me, probably works for the other guys (2-3 tts) having these problems.
This isn't an openoffice bug. It might be an X config tool bug though.
Yup, however at the point in time I opened the bug the only problem was exhibited by openoffice. Today I sort of stumbled upon rhgb which funnily enough exhibited the same kind of a font problem so I knew it wasn't just a problem with OO anymore. I actually stumbled upon bug #91401 at that point, too. I've got no idea under what to reclassify this as so I'll leave it in openoffice. People looking for a solution might also find it a bit easier. :)