Dr. Deb wrote:

> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> Dr. Deb wrote:
>>> Trying to install Star Office and everything goes well until I get to
>>> the install screen (download and unpack worked well).
>>
>> Yours isn't a very informative background setup for a question.
>>
>> It doesn't describe what 'method' is being used to install what Star
>> Office to what (presumably) linux distro and desktop environment.
>>
>> The majority of linux distros of various DEs come with SO preinstalled.
>> The majority of linux distros and DEs use a package management system
>> which doesn't isolate any kind of process which resembles 'download and
>> unpack'.
>>
>> So as a result, your question setup leaves the reader to imagine what
>> you are doing and why you are using the words you are using in the way
>> you are using them.
>>
>> It is an interesting little game that some of those who help those who
>> ask questions play to try to guess at what the questioner was looking at
>> and thinking about and using when they were struck to ask the question,
>> but it isn't a good way to get the results you want.
>>
>> Why don't you start by not assuming that anyone who is reading your post
>> knows what kind of operating system you are working with and what v. of
>> SO you are wanting to install and what method you are using to install
>> it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Easter
>
> Okay, nasty habit we have of assuming all are on the same page.
>
> I downloaded the SO file NOT OpenOffice, but Sun's StarOffice 8. Ran
> the "sh xxxxxxxxx.sh" command and things proceeded as they should. A
> terminal window opened and asked me where I wanted to unpack the "sh"
> file. I accepted the default and it unpacked the file into the "tmp"
> directory
> and then opened the Install window. That was all as it should be, the
> only
> problem is, the Install window was blank. It may well be a video setting,
> but before I mess with too much, I was wondering if someone else had had
> the same problem
>
> thanks
>
> Deb

what linux distro are you running and are you using compiz-fusion and if so
are you using compiz as your window manager. i am clutching at straws here
because if i use limewire start the app and then minimise the app then
maximise the app it comes up blank like yours. you can work out the rest.