Unintelligibly long tooltips crash Compiz (Ubuntu)
Hi,
I use Zotero in Open Office in Ubuntu (10.10). When I hover over an in-text citation with about 7 or more entries, the tooltip is extraordinarily long, which crashes Compiz effects. This is a known limitation in Compiz, but it raises the question - why are these unintelligible tooltips shown at all? Is it because I'm using the 2.1beta, in which case the tooltip might be handy debug output (although debug output could be accessed in a better way, I'm sure). If it is a production feature, the current state of tooltips is completely useless for ordinary users.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/567025
I use Zotero in Open Office in Ubuntu (10.10). When I hover over an in-text citation with about 7 or more entries, the tooltip is extraordinarily long, which crashes Compiz effects. This is a known limitation in Compiz, but it raises the question - why are these unintelligible tooltips shown at all? Is it because I'm using the 2.1beta, in which case the tooltip might be handy debug output (although debug output could be accessed in a better way, I'm sure). If it is a production feature, the current state of tooltips is completely useless for ordinary users.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/567025
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=116800
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/712824
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=116820
[edited -- NeoOffice, which I originally mentioned, is Mac, where the whole Compiz issue is irrelevant.]
And LibreOffice becomes more relevant because Ubuntu 11.04 will ship with it rather than OpenOffice...
Regardless of the OS, word processor variant or field code size, it's still lame to show uninformative information by default.
Someone needs to budge here... This presumably affects Mendeley users as well-- between the two, this probably bites just about everyone who does serious academic writing in OOo or LO under Linux.
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
compiz
Things will come back to life.
But man, this is still no fun.