xfce 4.2.2 & openoffice 2.0 rc1

Alexander Toresson alexander.toresson at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 23:44:51 CEST 2005


On 10/7/05, Robert Cole <mailinglist at support4linux.com> wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 09:47 am, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > Robert Cole wrote:
> > > Its odd but when openoffice 2 writer runs it doesn't start a document
> > > with the default template. Under KDE 3.4.2 it does. I can select start a
> > > new document and it will do it and everything else about it runs fine but
> > > its just the startup.
> > >
> > > I found out that in KDE the icons got created with commands like ooffice2
> > > -writer %U
> > >
> > > I'm assuming they got created the same way and that xfce isn't taking the
> > > parameters. Its an easy fix to just change to oocalc, oowriter, etc but
> > > the menueditor doesn't show me the office folder to edit them and the
> > > xfce 4.2 manual has but a footnote on using the editor. I looked in
> > > menu.xml but didn't find it there.
> > >
> > > Some help please? :)
> >
> > The menu strips off most command line arguments because I was lazy and
> > it doesn't know how to deal with them.  Feel free to file a bug and
> > maybe I'll get to it eventually...
>
> Ok no prob. But is there a way to edit the items themselves so I can change
> that command to run oowriter rather than ooffice -writer?
>

I dunno, though a work-around would be to write a small script.

Regards, Alexander Toresson



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