Issue 119227 - OpenOffice 3.2.0, Mendeley Desktop 1.3.2, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Black bar spans all monitors on hover and crashes compiz
Summary: OpenOffice 3.2.0, Mendeley Desktop 1.3.2, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Black bar spans ...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.2 RC5
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact: Yurggent Alfredo Chable Torrez
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Keywords: needhelp
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Reported: 2012-04-14 18:23 UTC by Corbin Tarrant
Modified: 2014-03-31 18:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Corbin Tarrant 2012-04-14 18:23:31 UTC 
I am running OpenOffice 3.2.0 and Mendeley Desktop 1.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and just installed the citation plugin. I can insert citations just fine but am experiencing a black stripe every time I hover over a citation. I have a dual monitor setup and it spans both monitors all the way to the edges of the screens. I also use compiz (http://www.compiz.org/) and this black popup keeps crashing compiz.

I posted this issue on the Mendeley Desktop support site and got this in response from a user: 

"The thin black stripe is a tooltip. OpenOffice displays the complete content of field codes in a tooltip when mousing over a field. Mendeley's field codes are quite long because they include the complete details of the cited work.

Very wide windows can cause compiz to crash on some systems. I haven't experienced this myself but some users have reported that the problem stopped occurring for them after updating to a newer version of Ubuntu."

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a bug in Open Office or an Ubuntu bug?
Comment 1 Kay 2013-05-21 22:30:47 UTC 
Corbin --

Could you install our latest version, OpenOffice 3.4 and let us know if this still occurs? 

Also, since you are using a rather customized setup, it might be best to post this question to the OpenOffice Community User Forum:

http://forum.openoffice.org/