Greek Menu in Open Office 1.10
 

I'm running Linspire 4.5 on an Athlon 1.1GHz Wintergreen computer with multiple users. Linspire 4.5 came with Open Office 1.0.3 included but that version has no help files. Version 1.1 does. The version now offered by Click-n-Run is version 1.1 so I logged in as root and uninstalled (using Click-n-Run) Open Office 1.0.3, then installed the current version, again using Click-n-Run.

When the install finished, I ran Open Office as root with no problems. I logged in as user 1, no problems. Same for user 2. Logged in as user three, the Open Office menu across the top of the page is in Greek. Actually, just the font is Greek, the language is still English transliterated into Greek characters. This only occurs for this one user.

How do I fix this? Anybody know?

Woah! Wierd!

I wonder if you can check if user3 has some personalised setting that is different?

Or maybe try deleting user3 and making a new entry?

Save the home directory stuff first.

This is a home desktop system. User3 is my 15 year-old daughter for whom I bought the computer in the first place. Her computer savvy is pretty much limited to using it for homework, web browsing and research, and what Linux games she can download from Linspire's Click-n-Run site. I doubt that any personal settings she may have made would include Greek fonts.

The menus aren't actually Greek, just Greek fonts. The words are still English words, spelled in English once one substitutes an English font for the Greek. So I guess what I really need to know is how to reset or set the default menu font.

It's still strange that it only occurred with that one user. At least as far as I know.

You could try in Open Office to go to "Tools" --> "Options" and see if you can find something amis in there (probably in the "OpenOffice.org" section). I've taken a quick look and don't see any obvious way for that to happen. Chances are there is something weird in the way the user account is set up, and Open Office is merely reflecting that.

Do you know if you are using KDE or Gnome? I don't know which Linespire uses. Depending on your level of knowledge, a better question might be: Do you see Konqueror or Nautilus available?

Thats what I was thinking.

Linspire uses KDE