https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40807

Joshua Koudys <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |---

--- Comment #8 from Joshua Koudys <[email protected]> ---
Okay, this is still definitely a problem. All I see are a bunch of
system-generated responses and then this thing auto-closed as "RESOLVED
INVALID". Has any human being apart from its submitter actually looked at this?
I can produce this issue so can give you any info you need to debug. 
It looks like libreoffice tries to make things more efficient, since when you
run 'soffice' while an instance is already running, it brings that window to
the front. This is fine when using it on a GUI as a single-user, but a big
reason to use LibreOffice is for running it on a server to convert, or quickly
extract information from a wide variety of file formats. According to all the
docs, I should be able to just nicely start soffice running like a service like
so:

$  soffice --nofirststartwizard --minimized --invisible
--accept="socket,port=8100;urp;"

Then from a separate process connect to it to quickly run small tasks, like
conversion:
$ soffice --headless --convert-to pdf MyDocument.doc

Except: this just returns straight away, because soffice just sees that it's
already running, and does nothing but try and make the 'main window' pop up.
Obviously this is inapplicable in --invisible mode.
I know it's definitely connecting, since when I start it like a service, then
in another window run:
$ soffice -nofirststartwizard
in the window running the service, I see:

Warning: -nofirststartwizard is deprecated.  Use --nofirststartwizard instead.


Please please take a look at this. It would be a huge performance improvement,
especially to those of us running libreoffice on backend servers. The file
conversions libreoffice does are excellent and with a few small updates
libreoffice could be for web applications managing office docs what imagemagick
is to apps that manipulate images.

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