Whole screen covered and has no borders or titlebar when using compiz

[deepdraft]

OpenOffice.org 2.3.0-1ubuntu2

When I start OpenOffice it expands to the whole screen and hides everything (including the Panel). The windows has no borders and no titlebar.
The dialogs also sometimes hide the whole screen, but still remain mostly in original size in the upper left corner. (see attachment)

I am currently running Kubuntu 7.10 with compiz (0.6.0+git20071004-0ubuntu1), compiz-fusions (0.5.2-20070928-0ubuntu2) and emerald (0.3~git20070717-oubuntu1) on Intel video card.

possible workarounds :

Install the "Advanced desktop effects settings" package (Compiz desktop effects control panel), you can just go to add/remove applications for this.
In this control panel:
- Enable "Workarounds"
- Within "Workarounds", disable "Legacy full screen support"

or, if you are willing to remove your openoffice settings, you can try the following command
mv ~/.openoffice.org2 ~/.openoffice.org2.bak

[Eduardo Diaz (eduardo-j-diaz)]

Same problem here.

[Tim (cyclegeek)]

I got the same problem after re-installing OOo on Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz. I got it back to normal by installing openoffice.org-gtk. Unfortunately, it causes it to crash very often when you try to do something.

[Vikrant (vikrant82)]

Same problem here.
If i install openoffice.org-gtk, it simply freezes on start and Xorg starts goes wild with CPU usage. Overall desktop freezes. Killing it is only option left.

[Vittorio Ballestra (vittorio-ballestra)]

Same problem: kubuntu-7.10 up to date till now (16:53 GMT+1 09/10/2007).
Openoffice will automatically switch to fullscreen when using compiz. I always have to right click on taskbar and manually toggling fullscreen off.

[Vittorio Ballestra (vittorio-ballestra)]

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[Vittorio Ballestra (vittorio-ballestra)]

Here's a work-around to this problem. Disabiling lecacy fullscreen support works for me.

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=4544

[deepdraft (dimitar.nedev)]

But if a disable the "legacy fullscreen support" the firefox has the same problem.
So it does not really work for me.

[metaph3r (schmidt-silvio)]

Same here on Kubuntu 7.10

[cestuila (cestuila)]

idem

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

As I've seen disabiling lecacy fullscreen support still isn't an ideal solution. Open Office still is loaded taking the space of the full screen height and width but at least it doesn't cover the panel and has window-decorations.

[cestuila (cestuila)]

If i open a .pps with compiz disabled, OpenOffice come in fullscreen with windows borders.
It seems that reducing OpenOffice window (compiz disabled), then close OO does the job.
When (compiz enabled) opening another .pps, it comes in a window with borders.

[Brian Watson (vertexoflife)]

I can definitely verify this bug.
Aside from this error, Open Office looks really nice!

[Brian Watson (vertexoflife)]

"I always have to right click on taskbar and manually toggling fullscreen off."

Even when fullscreen is manually toggled off, there are no window-decorations or borders.

[Damian bikiel (dbikiel)]

I've had the same problem on kubuntu gutsy amd64. If I open an ooffice file, then I haven't the window's borders, and everything is on full screen. but, if I open another oofice file (for example, first oocalc and then and oowriter file) the second window is OK.

[Damian bikiel (dbikiel)]

Disabling the legacy fullscreen from tthe workarounds plugins of compiz solved the problem

[Gustavo A. Díaz (gdiaz)]

Using Kubuntu Gutsy.
Disabling the "legacy fullscreen" does not work for me... Then that is not the fix.. and i have 20 workstations with the same problem.. so...

[Damian bikiel (dbikiel)]

disabling the legacy full screen only works for a while.

Now I'm running compiz using:
compiz --replace --indirect-rendering -c emerald

This is part of my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
        Driver "nvidia"
        Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
        Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
# Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
        Monitor "Generic Monitor"
        Defaultdepth 24
        Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
        Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 1
                Modes "1280x800"
        EndSubSection

and now is running OK.

[Luca Gambetti (lucagambetti)]

Not worked for me, I tried to modify xorg.conf as suggested but nothing happened.

[cyberorg (jigish-gohil)]

Try rm -rf ~/.ooo-2.0

[Luca Gambetti (lucagambetti)]

Still not working, exactly the same problem.

[Andreas Zitzelsberger (az82)]

Disabling the legacy fullscreen support fixed this problem for me on Kubuntu Gutsy with an Nvidia graphic card. Until now, no other application has been affected by unsetting this option.

[Luca Gambetti (lucagambetti)]

Still not working, exactly the same problem.

[Damian bikiel (dbikiel)]

I have it all working. And now it stopped to work. First, my firefox doesn't show the windows decorations. only if I go fullscreen mode and then I return to normal view it appears. And with openoffice, nothing. It is not the legacy...

Yesterday I updated some stuff... How can i check if some of the upgrades broke anything?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

[deepdraft (dimitar.nedev)]

I have tried it under the latest version of compiz available under Kubuntu Hardy alpha and it seems that OO.o works with no problems.
I assume one of updates fixed it.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Thanks for the update.

[LinuxBladeGuy (spam-nashira)]

I was having this problem too with Hardy fully updated to the latest everything... It HAD been fine, then it suddenly started behaving as indicated above...

The "Fix" for me was to:
1. disable the "Legacy Full Screen" workaround
2. Start OpenOffice, verify that I now have title bars
3. With OpenOffice running still, re-enable the "Legacy Full Screen" workaround
4. Quit OpenOffice, restart it and my window decorations are back

Not sure exactly why this fixed it, or how it got broken in the first place, but after going through those steps it works fine...

[karlrt (karlrt)]

for me, with new updated hardy heron, amd64, it still occurs. I dont know why, but i didnt have this bug in Gutsy (also amd64), even with the first 8.04 beta installed, everything was right, but somehow, during hardy release aproaches, i got the same bug! So the "update" didnt work for me

[karlrt (karlrt)]

disabling legacy support in the workarounds-compiz gives me the normal OO borders, so, i can du exact the same thing as linuxbladeguy wrote to "fix" it (dont know accually what causes this problem)

[Benjamin (tibasic-forever)]

I'm using the Hardy Heron Beta. I have the same problem with using compiz.
This problem seems to occur with every Openoffice application except for Writer.

To fix it I do: [Ctrl + Shift + j] (twice) <-- This tells it to go fullscreen and then to leave fullscreen.

This "fixed" it for me. However, not having to do this would still be nice :D

[DutchSherpa (riemer-thalen)]

In the Q&A section this issue is marked as "solved": https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/35857
The "solution" is to remove the hidden openoffice.org2 directory, thus losing all your settings, and have OOo create new default settings. It looks like a good idea to remove the "solved" flag.

[Koen (koen-beek)]

I think this one is fixed on Intrepid - can anyone reproduce the problem there ?

On Hardy, many people seem to have this problem which I think is a bug in compiz

A possible workaround for compiz is the following :

Install the "Advanced desktop effects settings" package (Compiz desktop effects control panel), you can just go to add/remove applications for this.

In this control panel:
- Enable "Workarounds"
- Within "Workarounds", disable "Legacy full screen support"

[Luca Gambetti (lucagambetti)]

The problem was present under Kubuntu Hardy; under this platform the
"Workaround" did not work for me. I cannot reproduce the bug under
Ubuntu Intrepid (ie all worked correctly)
Il giorno 23/mar/09, alle ore 22:38, Koen Beek ha scritto:

> I think this one is fixed on Intrepid - can anyone reproduce the
> problem
> there ?
>
> On Hardy, many people seem to have this problem which I think is a bug
> in compiz
>
> A possible workaround for compiz is the following :
>
> Install the "Advanced desktop effects settings" package (Compiz
> desktop
> effects control panel), you can just go to add/remove applications for
> this.
>
> In this control panel:
> - Enable "Workarounds"
> - Within "Workarounds", disable "Legacy full screen support"
>
> --
> OpenOffice covers the whole screen and has no borders or titlebar
> when using compiz
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150579
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

[Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange)]

I did reproduce it in Ubuntu 8.10. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/156283/comments/19

I also clarified about desktop effects vs no desktop effects in the same comment.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can anyone still reproduce this bug on Jaunty? There are some steps that were given to try to reproduce but I can't reproduce it myself:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/156283/comments/16

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I can reproduce this myself with metacity when compositing manager is turned off.

[Michael Gauthier (mike-silverorange)]

I'm also able to reproduce this in 9.04 when the compositing manager is turned off.

[tjmeans (tjmeans)]

Using Ubuntu 8.04LTS for a while now and have been getting this bug/problem intermittently. Any solutions?

[tjmeans (tjmeans)]

Follow up:

Just tried the Advanced Desktop Effects Settings application and disabled Legacy Full Screen Support. That seems to have taken care of the problem for me.

Thanks, Koen Beek!

[yohan (hance83)]

sexy lisha

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

yohan,

WHAT?

Why did you assign the bug to yourself?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

deepdraft, this issue is unreproducible in LibreOffice Writer. Does this work for you?

 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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[sylsau (sylsau)]

I'm using Unity 2D (which is not using compiz) (Ubuntu 12.04 Precise) and the same problem happens when I quit LibreOffice while in Full Screen mode and then start it again.
Considering the Unity layout, there is not even the title bar (picture: http://www.stockme.fr/img7a9cdcc608/Screenshot_from_20120905_201235.png ) (I modified my theme colors, hence the unusual colors). Then, when the problem happens, I'm obliged to open a blank new document in order to have a window that behaves normally.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Can anyone reproduce this issue on Ubuntu 14.04?