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LaneLester
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 Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 6:13 am Post subject: LibreOffice Soffice Now Opens Swriter Window |
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Years ago I used to hate the OpenOffice startup that would give me a blank new document when I wanted to edit an old one. I learned to execute soffice instead of swriter to avoid the annoying behavior.
Recently executing soffice has returned to irritating me with a new document. I don't know if it's an upgrade to libreoffice or cairo dock or xfce or whatever.
I discovered a workaround by changing the cairo dock launcher from soffice to soffice.bin.
Yes, I'm running in Linux.
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PromptJock
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:07 am Post subject: Re: LibreOffice Soffice Now Opens Swriter Window |
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| LaneLester wrote: | Years ago I used to hate the OpenOffice startup that would give me a blank new document when I wanted to edit an old one. I learned to execute soffice instead of swriter to avoid the annoying behavior.
Recently executing soffice has returned to irritating me with a new document. I don't know if it's an upgrade to libreoffice or cairo dock or xfce or whatever.
I discovered a workaround by changing the cairo dock launcher from soffice to soffice.bin.
Yes, I'm running in Linux.
Lane |
Y'know, if you just SINGLE-CLICK THE ICON OF AN AN EXISTING DOCUMENT, OOo will open that "clicked" document directly. Same if you're running OOo on a Mac.
If you're running OOo on a Windows machine, you have to DOUBLE-CLICK the file icon, rather than single-click, to get it to open.
And yes, I, too, am running Linux and that's how I get OOo to "directly" open my documents. ONLY IF I want to create a new document (i.e., start on a blank page) do I start the application directly.
Hope this helps... 
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LaneLester
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:27 am Post subject: |
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It's an example of the beauty of our systems in that we can have our own way of doing things.
Mine is to execute programs from Cairo Dock, and I usually open recently-edited documents with the little down arrow next to Open in the soffice window.
But thanks for the suggestion.
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