How can I fix the cursor position in OpenOffice?

May 3, 2004 8:43 PM

Openoffice.org question. I've been using OO.o for a couple of weeks now and one thing is driving me mad. The cursor always looks to be about 1em further ahead of the text than it actually is. As a result I frequently find myself thinking I typed an extra space and deleting the last letter of a word. Is there any way to fix this? It is actually annoying enough that I will stick with Word until it is resolved.

I take it back, make that 1en, either way, its just enough to mess me up. I need my blinky cursor touching the characters!

posted by Grod to computers & internet (8 comments total)

I've never noticed this behavior. Are you using a particular font that exhibits the problem, or a wacky font server or renderer?
posted by majick at 9:20 PM on May 3, 2004

Um, no. The font does not appear to matter. Times New Roman or Adobe Warnock Pro, it doesn't make a noticable difference. I'm running OOo on a windows box, when I installed it I didn't change anything, so it renders the fonts with whatever is the default.
posted by Grod at 9:25 PM on May 3, 2004

This is a screenshot. The top half, if I were to press backspace, would delete the n. The bottom is just to show the normal cursor behaviour.
posted by Grod at 9:32 PM on May 3, 2004

Linux version? Because my actual cursor is very frequently off from the perceived one in Suse 8.1. It might not be oo.o.
posted by Mayor Curley at 10:07 PM on May 3, 2004

No. Win 9x version. I've been switching over to open source software as part of a planned personal migration. When Photoshop and Indesign run natively on Linux I'm going to make the switch. Of course, I'd rather get a Mac, but I can't afford that.
posted by Grod at 11:10 PM on May 3, 2004

version 1.1.0 on my machine (XP) does not do the same. It could be the version you're running, or maybe the metrics you've got set up for your screen. Definitely worth investigating.
posted by seanyboy at 12:18 AM on May 4, 2004

whereas v1.1.1 on my work machine(win2k) does do the same. It could be an error associated with
- 1.1.1.
- preXP versions of windows (unlikely - IMHO)

I'd downgrade to version 1.1.0, and flag the error up as a bug in the Open Office buglist.
posted by seanyboy at 1:35 AM on May 4, 2004

I had this problem running OO.o (don't remember which version) on my Mac, OSX 10.2

As a result, I'm using Microsoft Office X.
posted by rocketman at 8:32 AM on May 4, 2004