Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 86030
Impress crashes when slide show invoked inside xnest
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:47:02 UTC
Ooimpress crashes (segfault?) when invoked inside an Xnest server. Observed on SuSE Linux 10.3. Reproduce by: Xnest -geometry 1024x768+0+0 :1 & DISPLAY=:1 ooffice {any-presentation-file} Impress will come up just fine inside the Xnest server; however, when you invoke a slide show (e.g., via F5) it will immediately crash. The problem doesn't seem to depend on the presentation file or format; I also reproduced it by invoking ooimpress with no arguments and creating a plain 1-slide test presentation. It also doesn't seem to depend on the xnest size; I tried several sizes. The bug is unfortunate because Impress also doesn't provide a way to control the size of its presentation window. I can resize my display to match the projector resolution, but Impress still insists on displaying in the virtual presentation size. Xnest would be a perfect way to fool Impress into using the size I choose, except for this bug.
The defect is easy to reproduce. A second defect is also included in the second paragraph.
Reassigned.
With m52 Xnext crashes reproducibly when just trying to create a new presentation. Confirming.
But oddly the office keeps running in the background and needs to be killed.