[Partially solved] Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:18:03 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:16:32 -0400
> > Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Liam O'Toole
> >> <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> > What I would try next is seeing if something (an accessibility
> >> > setting, perhaps?) in my profile is causing the issue. Close OOo,
> >> > rename the .openoffice.org directory, and start OOo again.
> >> > 
> >> > Any difference?
> >> 
> >> I tried that - no difference.
> > 
> > What I meant was, I tried that after receiving your message (thanks for
> > the suggestion), but it did not make a difference.
> 
> Not sure if already mentioned in this thread, but IIRC that option is 
> only available/visible for users running OOo under KDE/GNOME/XFCE.

I'm running under Xfce.
 
> You can try with another variant: using env. variables (i.e., 
> OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome) that I guess it should be defined under "/usr/
> bin/soffice script".
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Environment_Variables

You're really something else, Camaleón!  Doing 'export
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome' and then running OO causes that check box to
finally appear, and leaving it unchecked gives me my good old GTK
dialog box!

I see that on the Wiki page you noted, only Gnome and Kde are
mentioned.  I've filed a bug against openoffice.org-gtk:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602258

Thanks much!
Celejar
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