[Tfug] OpenOffice annoyances

John Karns johnkarns at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 13:28:21 MST 2007


On 8/20/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I find myself using OpenOffice more and more in order to collaborate
> with MS Word users.  And I'm running into a lot of annoyances: e.g., I
> don't like the default keybindings, the bullets toolbar acts as if it
> were pinned to the desktop, OOo windows don't show up in FVWM's pager.
> There are probably others but these are the big ones that I ran into
> today.

I'm a bit behind with the updates, perhaps, but I'm running fvwm
2.5.16 (compiled on the machine) on Breezy, w/ OOo 2.0 with no such
visibility problem in the pager.


> I'm wondering if anybody who has had more experience with OOo can
> point me toward a good resource (online docs, dead trees, a decent
> forum, etc) for customizing OOo and/or dealing with its quirks.  This
> is definitely a time when I'd prefer something simple, as I'm not
> using OOo so much that I actually want to learn it--just fix it.

Sorry, as I'm an occasional OOo user myself, I haven't felt much of a
need to customize it.

-- 
John




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