"disapearing" error windows

[Jeffrey Needle]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:21:43 -0500, stan wrote:

> For quite some time now my Ubuntu worksations has been exhibiting an
> extremly anoyig behavior. When a error dialog widow pos up, it is either
> invislble, or so light that I cannot se it, untill the mouse happens to
> cross it, at which time it appears at full brightness.
> 
> Up untill now, I have ust been living with this. But, this morning a RDP
> session timed out whule I was away from the machine. This made teh
> keyboard, and mouse clicks appear o be non fucntionsl. I came really
> close to rebooting the machine to solve this problem, before teh mouse
> acidently moved over the error dialog.
> 
> How can I defeat this behavior?

I have found OO database to be clunky, and then discovered how to get 
around a lot of it.  I'm sure you know all this, but for the record:

1.  If your database doesn't have a key field with a unique identifier, 
all kinds of things don't work correctly.

2.  If you don't have Java installed, likewise, all kinds of things screw 
up.

My general approach:

1.  Import your csv file into OO Spreadsheet -- just open the file using 
the spreadsheet module.

2.  Add a column at the beginning for the key field.  Autofill it down in 
a series, beginning with 1, and incrementing by 1.

3.  Create your database table in the database module.

4.  Copy the entire spreadsheet into the clipboard, go back to the 
database module, highlight the table you want to include the data, and 
simply paste.

All your data is now in database.  You can then easily create forms and 
reports.

Best.