How do I mend Openoffice?

[Seakat]

>
> Subject:
> Re: How do I mend Openoffice?
> From:
> Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:55:47 +0300
>
> To:
> Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> 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?
>
Under Java options, I was given the choice:
1.   Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.6.0_03           
/usr/lib/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre   Parameters: [blank]   Class path: [blank]
2.   Blackdown Java-Linux Team 1.4.2-02     /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre     
               Parameters: [blank]   Class path: [blank]

Initially #2 was selected, so I changed the choice to #1, but it seemed
to make no difference.