StarOffice crashes when using the KDE menu

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 6.4
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Symptom:

When you select the "Start" menu in StarOffice, that is located in the lower left corner and you want to select the menu entry "Programs", StarOffice immediately crashes and terminates itself after a few minutes.

Cause:

If you select the entry "Programs", you are accessing the KDE menu. Sometimes StarOffice is quite pedantic about the format and structure of that menu. Due to that fact a memory problem occurs, that triggers the above mentioned symptom.

Solution:

This menu is created by susewm. At ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/xwm1/susewm.rpm you find a new version of susewm, which is taking regard of this StarOffice peculiarity.

Please install this package with YaST. In chapter 3.4.9 "Installing packages" you find detailed instructions on how to do that.


Keywords: STAROFFICE, KDE, MENU

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