Julien Danjou • 2/11/2009

OpenOffice is better as a pager than as a text processor

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The article details a technical investigation into an OpenOffice bug where the software incorrectly sends _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP X11 events, causing unexpected desktop switches in the Awesome window manager. The author uses gdb to trace the bug to OpenOffice's internal X11 event handling code, providing a stack trace and analysis.

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