I have a small netbook with a small screen (~2009 ASUS 1000HE with 1024x600 screen), which I like to use as a typewriter of sorts. My OS of choice is Puppy Linux, specifically, a community-developed version (it's complicated) called X-Tahr 1b3. X-Tahr is Puppy with XFCE, and X-Tahr is Ubuntu Trusty Tahr compatible Puppy (X-Tahr 1b3 is based on TahrPup 6.0.2).

X-Tahr can be had here (support thread with links to download in first post) --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=99849

I'm using LibreOffice 5.1.1.3, although this issue was also present in 5.0.4 -- I upgraded LO in an attempt to fix the issue, and that did not work. My version of LibreOffice is packaged as a SquashFS file by Puppy user "Puppus Dogfellow", which (at least within Puppy) allows for a modular load/unload scheme, rather than permanently installing the software. (Puppy is a little different!) I've not had issues with LO until now, and --from what I recall-- the 4xx series LibreOffices did not have this issue at all.

The issue is that I cannot properly 'maximize' LO. It fills the screen, so that I can sort of see the status bar and about half of the lowest line of text through my taskbar (translucent). Maybe I'm a perfectionist, but I find that positively infuriating. Clicking on the 'maximize' button on the title bar doesn't work; in fact, LO seems to think that it /is/ mazimized, because that button shows one window box (as if maximized), rather than two window boxes one on top of the other (not maximized). I can move it around the screen fine, but I can't shrink it vertically. I can grow and shrink it horizontally, and I can grow it vertically, but that's all. Changing the window size does not fix the problem, or enable it to be fixed, either.

Please don't tell me to upgrade my system, as this is not a hardware problem. (Being a 'hardware guy', I don't get to say that too often!) That would also necessarily miss the point -- I want LO to work on my system, not someone else's...

Also, while I can compile to a limited extent (given explain-like-I'm-five instructions, I can compile a graphics driver, and I did exactly that several hundred times, over about six months, with the OpenChrome project) -- LibreOffice is a little, er, large for me to feel comfortable compiling it from scratch. That's  a little like going from an Estes rocket to something on the order of getting a Progress craft to the ISS, at least to me... I'm just not equipped for that, yet.

All of that said, please send halp.