Ubuntu
libreoffice package

  1. Bug #473622
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 473622

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Richard Wilbur (richard-wilbur) wrote :

I have both Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 installed in different partitions on this Dell Latitude C640 laptop (i386). I keep both fully updated and ever since the beginning(9.10beta), OpenOffice.org Impress with presenter-console has worked flawlessly under 9.04 but under 9.10 the presenter-console (1.1.0+OOo3.1.1-5ubuntu1) only works correctly if the secondary display has smaller number of pixels than the primary display.

[Ubuntu 9.10]
uname -a
Linux test-laptop 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

In testing with the secondary display having a larger pixel dimensions than the primary display and the slide show configured to appear on the secondary display, I noticed that the presenter console appears in front of the slide show on the secondary display sized to occupy the correct dimensions for full screen on the primary display. If the slide show is configured to appear on the primary display or the displays have the same pixel dimensions, the presenter console fills the secondary display and slide show is obscured beneath it. Neither is displayed on the primary display.

Testing Results
    laptop 640x480 800x600 1024x768
projector
640x480 Fails Works Works
800x600 Fails Fails Works
1024x768 Fails Fails Fails
1360x768 Fails Fails Fails

I prefer the higher resolution modes on the projector as the image is magnified many times the laptop screen size and thus profits more from higher resolution than the presenter-console! This is the reason I am not upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 for my work partitions, yet.

I downloaded the source code (apt-get source openoffice.org-presenter-console; apt-get build-dep openoffice.org-presenter-console;) and found what looked like a display indexing problem but haven't figured out how to build this beast in order to test my changes. Could someone point me to a page detailing the blessed way to download source and rebuild the presenter-console package? It seems the OOo build process is different from what I'm used to for other Ubuntu packages.