Re: "disapearing" error windows

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:21:43 -0500, stan wrote:

For quite some time now my Ubuntu worksations has been exhibiting an
extremly anoyig behavior. When a error dialog widow pos up, it is either
invislble, or so light that I cannot se it, untill the mouse happens to
cross it, at which time it appears at full brightness.

Up untill now, I have ust been living with this. But, this morning a RDP
session timed out whule I was away from the machine. This made teh
keyboard, and mouse clicks appear o be non fucntionsl. I came really
close to rebooting the machine to solve this problem, before teh mouse
acidently moved over the error dialog.

How can I defeat this behavior?

I have found OO database to be clunky, and then discovered how to get
around a lot of it. I'm sure you know all this, but for the record:

1. If your database doesn't have a key field with a unique identifier,
all kinds of things don't work correctly.

2. If you don't have Java installed, likewise, all kinds of things screw
up.

My general approach:

1. Import your csv file into OO Spreadsheet -- just open the file using
the spreadsheet module.

2. Add a column at the beginning for the key field. Autofill it down in
a series, beginning with 1, and incrementing by 1.

3. Create your database table in the database module.

4. Copy the entire spreadsheet into the clipboard, go back to the
database module, highlight the table you want to include the data, and
simply paste.

All your data is now in database. You can then easily create forms and
reports.

Best.


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