Re: [libreoffice-users] about libreoffice online which is introduced in version 5.3

2017-02-03 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Yes, that is an option. I have a lady in my apartment building that sends me emails to help he deal with her Google Docs she is creating. She prefers dealing with Google Docs over anything other method for creating/editing documents or shared editing of documents. Of course, I hope to look

Re: [libreoffice-users] about libreoffice online which is introduced in version 5.3

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, ok so now i've read the release-notice from Italo. I think the on-line version of LibreOffice needs to be on a "private Cloud". I think that would need to be installed on a machine at your place or rent some space on a server. If it's for a company or a fair sized group of people the

Re: [libreoffice-users] about libreoffice online which is introduced in version 5.3

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is always Google Docs. Very limited functionality but it means you don't have to install it on your machine = just use it in your web-browser. Personally i prefer to have something that is installed on my machine so that i can work off-line. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/ I th

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread James E. Lang
That's an interesting point of view Tom. In my opinion any unannounced regression is a proper subject for a bug report and a new capability is the subject for a feature request. But, I'm not a developer. It would be nice if ordinary dictionary definitions applied to the words used! -- Jim

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:21:38 -0800 Girvin Herr wrote: > I can confirm Paul's solution. I use Slackware Linux and xfce4 for > my desktop. xfce provides a similar popup when the .desktop file is > not +x. I routinely change the *.desktop files to +x to quiet the > xfce complaints. > > IMHO, This

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:21:54 -0500 Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > I used Linux Mint on a test system. What Desktop version are you > using > - MATE or Cinnamon? I used MATE when I tested Linux Mint. yes Mate for me too. d > > I use Ubuntu with the MATE desktop [16.04LTS] and I also

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches [SOLVED]

2017-02-03 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 09:38:24 -0500 "Paul D. Mirowsky" wrote: > Try changing the Icon properties set to allow execute. > > This may help. Wow! You da man! fixed! > > > On 2/2/2017 7:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > > Minor ones, the download and install were fine and that fixed my > > lack of spe

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Girvin Herr
I can confirm Paul's solution. I use Slackware Linux and xfce4 for my desktop. xfce provides a similar popup when the .desktop file is not +x. I routinely change the *.desktop files to +x to quiet the xfce complaints. IMHO, This is not exactly a LO problem. Sure, they could ship the distr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is this the same as "headless mode". A good search-term might be for; headless mode for LibreOffice Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2017 at 17:26, anne-ology wrote: >Just 'searched' for 'listening modes' & 'listening modes in LO'; > under the first, there are numero

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Hi Tom There is one thing that can cause "crashes" or frozen LO windows - the .config files. I had an issue with 5.2.2 freezing when working with large [number of pages] text files [.txt] editing and freezing MATE desktop. Something was messed up in the config folders and the LO system fol

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

2017-02-03 Thread anne-ology
Just 'searched' for 'listening modes' & 'listening modes in LO'; under the first, there are numerous manuals, etc. - under the second, nil. Hoping this helps you locate that for which you're searching, From: Jim Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:02 PM Subject: [libreoffice-us

Re: [libreoffice-users] Zoom control in the 5.3 status bar

2017-02-03 Thread anne-ology
If you're referring to LO's Impress, then chances are you clicked on something accidently; if you're referring to another part of LO, then maybe/maybe not. This is one of the reasons, I flipped over to videos from PPs ;-) [I never remembered how to get whatever b

[libreoffice-users] Starting libreoffice 5.1.4.2 in listening mode

2017-02-03 Thread Jim
I have been trying to start LO in listening mode so I can connect to it with a external Python macro. I've tried various 'helloworld' examples and I get errors with all of them. Such as: __main__.NoConnectException: Connector : couldn't connect to socket (Success) _main__.DisposedException: B

Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2017 at 01:57, gordon cooper wrote: > +1 > > Gordon. > > > On 03/02/17 13:12, Remy Gauthier wrote: > >> Euh, I think this thread should be cut and closed. It is becoming more >> and more a senseless discussion on the good or not so good ways of >> mode

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Right now is a good time to post bug-reports and "feature requests". "Feature requests" are what most 'normal' (ie non-devs) of us think of as bugs. It includes features that used to work but now don't and features that don't quite work at all. "Bug reports" are only things that cause the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I used Linux Mint on a test system. What Desktop version are you using - MATE or Cinnamon? I used MATE when I tested Linux Mint. I use Ubuntu with the MATE desktop [16.04LTS] and I also have the LO desktop icon,s plus the icons for Writer and Calc in the "top panel". I have not tried the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches

2017-02-03 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Try changing the Icon properties set to allow execute. This may help. On 2/2/2017 7:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: Minor ones, the download and install were fine and that fixed my lack of spell-checking that I was complaining of here a while back. I'm using Linux Mint 18. The new icons for versio