From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 24 3:42:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boognish.rain.fr (ABoulogne-107-1-1-116.abo.wanadoo.fr [217.128.116.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E7E37B422 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rain.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boognish.rain.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAOBf4Q04319 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:41:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from tfischer@rain.fr) Message-ID: <3BFF8750.8090109@rain.fr> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:41:04 +0100 From: Tom Fischer Organization: Equant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011122 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: linux-base 6.2 vs linux-base 7 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Dinesh Nair wrote: > i first installed staroffice6.0-beta some weeks back, without using the > ports mechanism. this was before it became a part of the ports. all i did > was to replace the /bin/sh reference in the scripts and it ran fine. the > only problem i ran into was that all file dialogs (open, save, save as et > al) was blank. the dialog window pops up, but no display in the directory > frame or even in the text field where the filename is. > > when i saw staroffice 6.0 appear in the ports, with a dependency on > linux_base-7, my first thought was that this would fix the empty file > dialog problem. I installed staroffice 6 with the ports mechanism, and I had the same problem with the dialog boxes not appearing. I was running afterstep 1.8.9 as my wm (XFree86 4.1.0). When I switched to twm, the dialog box problem went away... regards, tom tfischer@rain.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message