[opensuse] libreoffice user interface
Hello: I have libreoffice 5 (5.2) in Leap 42.2. I have set "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4" in both .bashrc and .profile as suggested at https://en.opensuse.org/LibreOffice. If I start libreoffice in a terminal libreoffice user interface is set to KDE4. If I start libreoffice using KDE3 start menu, libreoffice user interface is set to something else (gnome or LO default?). Why my setting in .bashrc and .profile disregarded when I start libreoffice using start menu? How to change this to start LO with KDE4 user interface? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@gmail.hu> [07-06-17 18:22]:
Hello:
I have libreoffice 5 (5.2) in Leap 42.2. I have set "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4" in both .bashrc and .profile as suggested at https://en.opensuse.org/LibreOffice.
If I start libreoffice in a terminal libreoffice user interface is set to KDE4. If I start libreoffice using KDE3 start menu, libreoffice user interface is set to something else (gnome or LO default?).
Why my setting in .bashrc and .profile disregarded when I start libreoffice using start menu? How to change this to start LO with KDE4 user interface?
maybe the ~/xxx.desktop file for LiberOffice -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/06/2017 03:19 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I have libreoffice 5 (5.2) in Leap 42.2. I have set "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4" in both .bashrc and .profile as suggested at https://en.opensuse.org/LibreOffice.
If I start libreoffice in a terminal libreoffice user interface is set to KDE4. If I start libreoffice using KDE3 start menu, libreoffice user interface is set to something else (gnome or LO default?).
Why my setting in .bashrc and .profile disregarded when I start libreoffice using start menu? How to change this to start LO with KDE4 user interface?
Thanks,
Istvan
Its hard to tell which is more obsolete, your desktop environment of choice or the help pages you've decided to rely on. Its entirely possible your kde3 menu item is not launching with the same arguments as your command line. Or it launches a shell script instead. Also the most web hits suggest the "kde4" argument is no more, and its only "kde" now days. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/06/2017 05:45 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Its hard to tell which is more obsolete, your desktop environment of choice or the help pages you've decided to rely on.
There is nothing obsolete about the DE, now Patrick's suggestion about the .desktop file is probably on point :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 19:41:20 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/06/2017 05:45 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Its hard to tell which is more obsolete, your desktop environment of choice or the help pages you've decided to rely on.
There is nothing obsolete about the DE, now Patrick's suggestion about the .desktop file is probably on point :)
OK. I can change libreoffice writer's default desktop file /usr/share/applications/writer.desktop or I can make a new desktop file in the user's menus (~/.config/menus and .local/share/applications/*.desktop) But, is there any way to set an environment variable which is respected independent from the desktop environment? I mean that the variable is set at login and every application use that setting. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/08/2017 03:16 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
But, is there any way to set an environment variable which is respected independent from the desktop environment? I mean that the variable is set at login and every application use that setting.
Sure. But you just have to hunt down every possible way of launching these LO programs and make sure they are sourcing your environmental, and not substituting their own command line options. Command line options always override environmental values.. Its not that this is a problem, its just that you and David are the last two people on earth running KDE3, and nobody remembers where all those settings are hidden. We are having enough trouble remembering where KDE/Plasma is hiding our own damn settings. Hell, we are having enough trouble remembering to what the name of our current DE is this week. Is it KDE or KDE5 or Plasma or Plasma5. The only reason KDE3 works at all is because all the Attention Deficit Disorder afflicted KDE devs have wandered away and left it alone all these years. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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