LibreOffice Writer pages open side-by-side mode

[Laird Heal]

When a new text document is opened the first page is in the top right corner of the new window. The ruler only shows over that half of the window. The top left corner of the window is blank, and wasted space. I cannot find a setting that affects this.

A few existing documents also open like this but some also open as one would expect (one-up) - until with no apparent reason they become two-up. Thank goodness the screen is wide enough to find the text pane.

Sorry, but I do not feel like taking the time to set up a debug version and stomp through the code to find the bug. My take is it's related to the almost-as-annoying feature that spots the pages two-up as the user zooms out.

This laptops video [Compaq A900] is screwy, or gives Ubuntu headaches from release to release. I had an xrandr script that corrected previous release problems, and at or nearly the same time as this display issue the boot process began denying the screen resolution; there are messages saying something like the system software is not able to get the bounds from the hardware. I had to update the xrandr script with settings for the builtin screen now and must run it every boot.

I mention that because it is possible that LibreOffice is pulling display (view rect) info from somewhere that retains incorrect numbers.

I would have pulled the .debs to back off to LibreOffice 3.4 but Apache OpenOffice got in first and does not have this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 30 02:26:15 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-30 (61 days ago)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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