Re: [Partially solved] Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:16:03 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 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
Oh, forget my previous message - you aren't seeing my problem.
I assume that what's going on here is that on normal systems, oo
correctly detects the DE and / or the presence of the GTK libs, and
behaves accordingly. The 'FORCE' variables, judging by their names,
seem to be to meant for something like my situation, where the
automagic detection isn't working properly. I just wish I knew *why*
it's not!
Celejar
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