OpenOffice Menu Font size - X application Menu Font Size

[Olaf Olson]

I guess I am the only one to ever experience this problem, as I have not 
seen it come to these lists and was told to go to the OO website to 
research the problem when I did.

I have a G3 B&W 350Mhz, 648Mb RAM, RAGE video, and 20GB hard drive. None 
of that really matters. The issue that I saw was that when I started 
Open Office, the menu fonts were so HUGE, that I couldn't see anything 
on the page. I couldn't type anything in, I couldn't select any menu 
items. I couldn't even EXIT, except for clicking the X to kill the window.

I figured it must be an installation problem, so I downloaded 1.1.2 and 
started the install (No yum update available). I couldn't run the 
installer because? I couldn't see any menus on the screen, or even pick 
the accept button on the license agreement.

So... I searched through OpenOffice.org. I went to the mail lists and 
found that there might have been an answer, back in October of 2003, 
which actually referred to an incident in April, which seemed to maybe 
relate to RedHat version 9 and probably 8, too. More investigation 
revealed that setting the screen resolution in X86Config was the thing 
that was hosing OpenOffice.

What a ridiculous suggestion! Obviously, these people were just trying 
to throw me off. If the video configuration was wrong, NOTHING would 
work. Still, when someone tells you the solution, you have to try it. 
According to the story I dug up during an hour of googling, the 
calculated resolution of the screen that is obtained when you enter the 
size of the screen and make it do the math is wrong, IF you use inches. 
Switch to mm, and it works. My screen is 16 x 12 inches. According to 
the calculations, I have a 2032 DPI screen. Changing to 406 x 304 yields 
80 DPI.

It's fixed.

Anybody else ever see that? Anybody else going to try the solution?

Now the stupid question. When YUM didn't install the application, how do 
you get it started?
 
Olaf