Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 31341
Presentation not fullscreen - fvwm (with no support for GNOME WM hints)
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:21:02 UTC
Hi, when starting a new presentation or opening a given Powerpoint presentation and starting the presentation the display is significantly smaller (both width and height) than the actual screen size (tested on a machine with 1280x1024 and another one with 1024x768). E.g. on the 1280x1024 machine the display window is 920x875 pixels. xprop -root shows that the window manager (fvwm) supports full screen mode. How can I tell openoffice the screen size to use? regards Hadmut
Reassigned to Christian.
Please have a look on this bug. It seems to be a window manager problem.
Hi, thanks for the hint with the window manager. If I use kde or gnome instead of fvwm, it works (1280x1024 shows small black bars, but maybe because of the different width/height-ratio). thanks and regards Hadmut
Is this issue solved ? If so, could the OP close this issue, please ?
I have seen no answer since October 10th to my question. Could someone close this issue, please?
This problem still exists, so please don't close this issue. The fullscreen used to work in FVWM just fine and other apps work fine, too. Anything I can help to fix this issue, let me know.
Which version of fvwm are you using? The latest (and greatest)? And which versions of OOo have you tried until now? 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.9.xx?
I'm using the versions of debian unstable: fvwm 2.5.12 and yesterday I've upgraded to oo 1.1.3 regards Hadmut
thackert -> hadmut: does your problem also occur with OOo-1.1.3? And could you also try this with OOo-1.1.4 or some OOo-1.9.xx builds?
Yes, it still exists with 1.1.3. Debian currently does not yet have 1.1.4, so I would have to compile it myself. It will take some time, because I'm busy today. regards Hadmut
Hi, if you need to build the version by your own please use the 1.9.xx code line. This code is more recent then the 1.1.x code line. Thanks Marc
Hi, I just tried OOo_1.9.m74_native_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz but didn't compile it. I took the rpms from the openoffice and converted them into debian packages as told in the description. The bug still exists. regards Hadmut
Added the needhelp keyword.. according to the user, this has consistently been reproduced. Need someone running Linux to test this issue.
Hi, an additional wish which could easily be implemented with fixing the bug: It would be great if presentation screen size of position would be configurable as an option (e.g. as command line parameter or environment variables). Background: I have a notebook with 1280x800 resolution, which I can configure to display just a subrectangle of 1024x768 on the external VGA (beamer). It would be really great if I could have openoffice to display its presentation at 1024x768+0+0 although display size is 1024x768, while in the other part of my notebook LCD I could have windows invisible for the audience, e.g. a Clock showing the remaining time etc. regards Hadmut
Oops, I just realized that in my last comment my fingers were typing nonsense. I meant 'presentation window size and position' and 'although display size is 1280x800'. Have I been drunk? Sorry. Hadmut
Are we sure this isn't Linux issue, no one else can confirm this in any version.
Ok, thanks, this was a good hint: You said no one else can confirm this problem. I just bought a new laptop and now had the problem with five different computers, so I was going through the details of my fvwm configuration and finally found the reason: When I remove the line Style "*" MWMFunctions, MWMDecor from my fvwmrc, the problem is gone. So it seems to have anything to do with these MWM functions. How exactly does OO calculate the full screen size? regards Hadmut
@hadmut: If this was an error in fvwn (better: in its *rc file), could you close this issue, please?
Hi, this is not an error of fvwm or the rc file. I used this rc file for years and with plenty of fullscreen and presentation programs, such as xv, netscape, mozilla, kpresenter, several video players etc. Openoffice is the only program which ever had this problem. All other programs were displaying full screen mode properly. So it is a bug of openoffice. The rc file entry is just the detail which openoffice can't cope with and ommitting it is not a bug fix, but a workaround. Openoffice still has a problem with the calculation of the screen size under certain circumstances. regards Hadmut
set target to office later
reassign to issue pool
not reproducible with 1.9m123 with fvwm2 2.4.9 with 800x600 (in Xnest) and in 1024x768 (extra-session). Neither with nor without the configuration line. not reproducible with OOo 1.1.5rc3 either.
I can confirm with either Ooo 1.1.5 or 1.9.122 fvwm -version gives: fvwm 2.5.9 compiled on Apr 6 2004 at 03:18:47 with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS
I think I know the reason why it works for me. My version of fvwm2 supports the "GNOME WM hints", since andreschnabel and andreasma (on IRC) could both reproduce (andreasma tried with 2.5.10) and their versions doen't support them, I'm confident that this is related. hadmut: Please post the output of "fvwm2 -version" If your version supports the GNOME WM hints, then my theory is proven wrong... ############# When a presentation is run with fvwm2 (without "GNOME WM hints"-support), the presentation is not fullscreen. To check whether your version of fvwm2 supports the hints, run fvwm2 -version and check the output
Hi, I've meanwhile upgraded my debian system several times and am not sure whether the current fvwm2 still shows the problem, but here it is: % fvwm2 -version fvwm 2.5.14 (from cvs) compiled on Aug 9 2005 at 04:51:29 with support for: ReadLine, RPlay, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS
double to IZ 11507?