File-Chooser dialogs show only background colors (gtk theme color & white in input areas) but no other widgets

[Timo Kuchheuser]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Whenever I try to export some oowriter file to pdf (by File -> Export as Pdf -> Export OR by clicking the symbol on the toolbar) the file-chooser dialog ist blank (only window, no widgets or buttons). This sometimes also happens when I try to open or save a file in oowriter. It seems that in maybe 10% of the cases the dialog appears after a few seconds.

Thanks for any advice.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 29 09:20:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Timo Kuchheuser (spam-probabilitywave)]

I found out that when i left-click into the area where the "Places" Box is supposed to be the dialog appears.
Could this be a common Gnome problem instead of being openoffice specific?

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

just happened to me in gimp, see screenshot.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

What window manager are you using? If it's Compiz, please reproduce with Metacity and report back.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

i do not know what windowing manager i was using a that time, but i completely changed my setup since then and i am not able to reproduce any longer (this is good for me, otoh). perhaps timo can reproduce.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

closing, nothings gonna happen here...