Attempting to run either Open or LibreOffice on Gentoo, whether by the compile-it-yourself ebuild or by the prebuild '-bin' ebuilds, gives me the same result every time, no matter what part of it I select. Running from a terminal gives the following:
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X-Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode: 148
Minor opcode: 4
Resource ID: 0x2a
Serial No: 1040 (1040)
Application Error
Thanks to the helpful folks at LinuxQuestions, we were able to narrow the problem down to one variable.
If 'SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN' is set to 'gtk' or 'kde', the interface flicks up for a few moments before the above output appears and libre/openoffice quits. However, if it is set to 'gen' (for generic X11) it works perfectly fine.
Suspected the problem could lie in the GTK or QT toolkits and so rebuilt both but to no avail. It was suggested that any themes for either that use elements of the other could be the cause, but there are no such themes on the system except for QT's GTK+ style, which is not in use.
At a bit of a loss now, since there seems to be no apparent lead to follow and find out what the fix is for this one.