How do I mend Openoffice?

[Alexander Smirnov]

Seakat wrote:
> Subject:
>   
>> How do I mend OpenOffice?
>> From:
>> Seakat <seakat at orange.fr>
>> Date:
>> Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:03:23 +0100
>>
>> To:
>> Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>>
>> I upgraded recently from Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy), and this
>> also upgraded OpenOffice2.0.2 (I think) to 2.3.1. Now Ooo is badly
>> broken. Using KDE, Write displays only part of the text (but it is still
>> there), and the icons on the toolbars have disappeared. In Calc, the
>> line heights have become tiny, and when teased apart, the text remains
>> invisible (but it is still there in the entry window on the toolbar).
>> (Running in Gnome the problem is similar except that the tool bar icons
>> are still there). Strange horizontal red lines appear in both Write and
>> Calc. Impress shows the images, but only occasional bits of text. Even
>> worse, when Ooo is loaded my computer slows right down and heats up. Is
>> there a way out, please? However I have installed Ooo 2.3.1 on XP _SP2
>> running in VirtualBox on Kubuntu, and there is no apparent problem there.
>> Otherwise, I've been a Kubuntu user for about 6 months, and it's just great!
>>     
>
> Further to my above posting, I got the icons back in Ooo by tinkering
> with permissions. All the other problems seemed still there, however,
> and running "sudo soffice" or "sudo ooffice" didn't help.
> Then after reading the recent thread on kdesudo, I tried "kdesudo
> soffice" and "kdesudo ooffice". Now just about everything seems to work
> (no sound in Impress, yet, but that's minor). WOW!
>
> Four questions/comments:
> 1. THANK YOU kdesudo!
> 2. Shouldn't Ooo work anyway without having to do all this, and can't it
> be made easier, especially for newbies?
> 3. Anyone got ideas about the nitty gritty of why my OOo's screwed up
> without kdesu?
I do not know exact reason of such behavior, but what java machine do 
you use for OO?