Bug 117740

Summary:	Enabling GL corrupted LibreOffice
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Janis Klava <jklava>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	rb.henschel
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0.4.2 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Janis Klava 2018-05-22 08:42:47 UTC

Description:
While looking for a default setting for paper size in Options, clicked on "enable Gl" and restarted office as per instructions.

Office restarted but is corrupted, menus appear and disappear as mouse rides over, cannot get back into Options to disable GL 

If GL causes these things why have it ??

Getting back to my needs, how does one enable A4 as a default paper size for all of Office so as not to have to reset it every time one starts a new document ?? Letter is the U.S. default, A4 in Europe

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select "Options"
2.Enable GL
3.Restart LibreOffice

Actual Results:  
can't get back into a working mode to select Options

1.select "Options"
2.Enable GL
3.Restart LibreOffice

Expected Results:
hoped to have a working Office but opened corrupted and cannot get back into Options to disable GL


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2018-05-22 11:11:52 UTC

This is a support request and not a bug report. Please use a channel listed in https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/ for such.

You can try to open the Options-dialog via short-cut Alt+F12. Navigate to LibreOffice > View via arrow-keys. Then use tab to go to "Use OpenGL for all rendering". Change checkbox via space-bar.

Or open -while LibreOffice is closed- the file registrymodifications.xcu in the user profile folder with an editor. Search for "UseOpenGL" and in the same line change <value>true</value> to <value>false</value>.