18 Mar
2021
18 Mar
'21
noon
Hi all!
Just in case anybody runs into the "libreoffice has no menubar"-problem:
installing dbus-x11 will bring the menubar back.
An other thing that you might run ointo: libreoffice by default uses x11 fallback
interface, which is exceptionally ugly. You have to install "libreoffice-gtk3"
and set "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3" in .profile to get a reasonably usabe GUI.
(libreoffice-qt5 breaks any kind of printing from libreoffice)
Nik
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19 Mar
19 Mar
5:16 a.m.
Hi Nik,
Am 18.Mar.2021 um 20:00 schrieben Sie:
Just in case anybody runs into the "libreoffice has no
menubar"-problem: installing dbus-x11 will bring the menubar back.
An other thing that you might run ointo: libreoffice by default uses
x11 fallback interface, which is exceptionally ugly. You have to
install "libreoffice-gtk3" and set "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3" in
.profile to get a reasonably usabe GUI. (libreoffice-qt5 breaks any
kind of printing from libreoffice)
If I remember right, you have installed an appimage Libreoffice 7.2.
Well. that's as far as I can see an "alpha" release. And alpha
means.... oh don't expect much out of it.
I however, as I wrote a week ago, use the official release 7.1.1.2
(fresh) from the LO-website and have not encountered ANY problem, even
printing goes flawlessly.
What's more, in the whole package there is no LO-gtk3 or LO-qt5
subpackage mentioned separately. Installing with "dpkg -i *.deb"
doesn't ask for additional dependencies to be solved, everything is on
board.
I wonder, what a VLCPLUGIN has to do with LO?
Regards Peter.,
5:52 a.m.
Anno domini 2021 Fri, 19 Mar 13:16:27 +0100
phiebie(a)drei.at scripsit:
Hi Nik,
Am 18.Mar.2021 um 20:00 schrieben Sie:
I have dropped the Appimage again - it showed the same menubar-gets-lost-in-nirvana as the
devuan version. So I'm back to libreoffice from devuan repos, which works quite nice -
when the menubar is present, that is.
Just in case anybody runs into the "libreoffice has no
menubar"-problem: installing dbus-x11 will bring the menubar back.
An other thing that you might run ointo: libreoffice by default uses
x11 fallback interface, which is exceptionally ugly. You have to
install "libreoffice-gtk3" and set "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3" in
.profile to get a reasonably usabe GUI. (libreoffice-qt5 breaks any
kind of printing from libreoffice)
If I remember right, you have installed an appimage Libreoffice 7.2.
Well. that's as far as I can see an "alpha" release. And alpha
means.... oh don't expect much out of it.
I however, as I wrote a week ago, use the official release 7.1.1.2
(fresh) from the LO-website and have not encountered ANY problem, even
printing goes flawlessly. What's more, in the whole package there is no
LO-gtk3 or LO-qt5
subpackage mentioned separately. Installing with "dpkg -i *.deb"
doesn't ask for additional dependencies to be solved, everythingSAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN is
on
board.
Then you have the X11 fallback, which always works, but is a PITA on 160dpi an above.
I wonder, what a VLCPLUGIN has to do with LO?
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN .. I was told it stands for "video core library".
Sometimes LO detects the correct library to use, sometimes not. It's totally
undocumented what it looks for when choosing the "right" one. Bit it's
possible to make it prefer one gui toolkit over an other. That works, but as I wrote,
there is no dependency on dbus-x11 which is needed for the menubar (god knows why).
Nik
Regards Peter.,
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6:31 a.m.
Hi Nick,
Am Donnerstag, 18. März 2021 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
Hi all!
Just in case anybody runs into the "libreoffice has no
menubar"-problem: installing dbus-x11 will bring the menubar back.
Not sure, if it's the same phenomenon, but I've seen the menu bar vanish
or, rather, not being drawn correctly. I've been able to bring it back
with "shading the window" (minimize to window title only) and maximize
it again, so the menu bar gets redrawn, I think. I had to repeat that
sometimes. But… dbus-x11 is and had been installed.
Libreoffice 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u7 on Devuan Beowulf here..
Kind regards, Stefan
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