Dave Howorth wrote:
I had a strange experience last night - libreoffice won't open files. That is File/Open doesn't bring up a dialog box. File/New works and so does using a filename on the command line when starting libreoffice.
Does anybody know what this might be? It's on 11.3, standard repository. I installed a system update the day before but I don't remember whether there was anything for libreoffice.
There's good news and bad news. The good news is that with help from some libreoffice-users folks, I now know what caused this and I have a workaround. The bad news is that it's a bug in Libreoffice and I need some help testing other versions, please. So here's the steps to reproduce: (1) Login to a Gnome session (KDE may also work, dunno) (2) Start libreoffice (3) Select Tools/Options/LibreOffice/General (4) Observe in that page a checkbox 'Use LibreOffice dialogue boxes' (5) Ensure the checkbox is blank (not selected) (6) Save settings and check that File/Open pops up a dialog box. (7) Quit libreoffice and log out of the session (8) Login to an LXDE session (9) Start libreoffice (10) Select File/Open *(11) Check whether a dialog box appears (12) If not, select Tools/Options/LibreOffice/General *(13) Check whether there is a checkbox 'Use LibreOffice dialogue boxes' If your system does NOT open a dialog box in step 11 and does NOT have a checkbox in step 13, you are seeing the same bug as me. I have opensuse 11.3. So I'd appreciate any confirmation or contradiction on 11.4 or 12.1 beta if anybody's able. Cheers, Dave PS The workaround is to login to a Gnome session and select that checkbox, then go back to LXDE and it all works. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org