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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/03/2010 06:33 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-11-03, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net>  wrote:
> > On 11/02/2010 08:04 PM, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
> > > Camaleón<noelamac@gmail.com>   wrote:
> > > > 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!
> >
> > Must you do that export *every time*, or just once?
>
> You can put the export in your ~/.profile (or ~/.xprofile if you are
> using GDM). Then the 'once' becomes 'every time' automatically :-)
>
> Another possibility is to add the environment variable to
> /etc/openoffice/soffice.sh.

Even though I have the previously-referred-to check box, 
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP is not in any one of these files on my system:
 ~/.profile
/etc/profile
~/.profile
/etc/openoffice/soffice.sh

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