How to fix error messages when starting OpenOffice oowriter.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 28 July 2007, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> I am getting the following error messages when I try to open ooWriter in
> Kununtu Feisty Fawn from a konsole window.  Is there any way to
> eliminate these errors?
>
> Someone on the OpenOffice list told me it was a (K)ubuntu problem.
> Possibly something to do with finding a font that is called forl.
> I'd appreciate any help on tracking it down.
>
> Larry
>
>
> Starting from konsole:
> ----------------------
> lba at kinda ~ $ oowriter
>
> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>
> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>
> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>
> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>
> lba at kinda ~ $
> (process:6047): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization
> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>
> (process:6047): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>
> The ooWriter screen then comes up and it _seems_ normal.

Ok, I get the same error messages but I never start OO from a Konsole window 
so I never saw them before (and didn't know -gasp- that anything was wrong).

So why are you worried about this if everything is working ok?   And why are 
you starting OO from a Konsole window?

Ignore it.