On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Michael wrote:

> On Monday 10 December 2018 07:22:51 am Michael wrote:
>> On Monday 10 December 2018 03:57:35 am Felmon Davis wrote:
>>> I still have the disappearing menu items in OpenOffice though. let's
>>> say I activate a minimized OO window; then the menu items are
>>> visible. if I pass the mouse over them, they disappear as a group but
>>> the individual item will appear directly under the mouse.
>>>
>>> it's tolerable but it would be nice to fix. as far as I can tell,
>>> other things, at least things I use the most, are civilized.
>>
>> This is a somewhat known issue with OO.  Pop-up windows in OO are also
>> about unreadable, which is solved by grabbing the  pop-up edge with the
>> mouse and dragging it until it's readable.  Trial and error till you find
>> what makes the  pop-up windows fully readable.
>>
>> It's also seemingly OS dependent, as I did different thing on CentOS to
>> 'make it better' than I did on Ubuntu.
>>
>> To fix most of it (Ubuntu), I started with the theme Plastik and made mods
>> to that.  If someone knows where themes are stored I can do a diff between
>> my changes and the original Plastick.  Or just upload it.
>
> Slip of the fingers, replace all OO above with LibreOffice very late 5x
> through 6.0.6.2.

ok. I have LO installed on the Windows machine but not here on 
Trinity/Debian.

I fixed the problems by removing some GTK3 files. not sure what caused 
it but now OO has stable menus and none of the other programs such as 
Pan, FF or Chrome are misbehaving.

fjd

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Felmon Davis