I have the same problem (I'm no longer able to open pps in edit mode) and I
solved it with this script. It's brute-force solution (temporarily renames pps
to ppt), but it works.
----------------SCRIPT----------------
#!/bin/bash
#script to open pps files in edit mode in Ubuntu
#script contains code found on several places on the internet and can handle
only one parameter (file)
fullpath=$1
filename="${fullpath##*/}" # Strip longest match of */
from start
dir="${fullpath:0:${#fullpath} - ${#filename}}" # Substring from 0 thru pos of
filename
base="${filename%.[^.]*}" # Strip shortest match of .
plus at least one non-dot char from end
ext="${filename:${#base} + 1}" # Substring from len of base
thru end
if [[ -z "$base" && -n "$ext" ]]; then # If we have an extension and
no base, it's really the base
base=".$ext"
ext=""
fi
extnew=$ext
if [ "$ext" == "pps" ] || [ "$ext" == "PPS" ]; then
extnew="ppt"
fi
if [ "$dir" == "" ]; then
dir="."
fi
oldname="$dir/$filename"
newname="$dir/$base.$extnew"
mv "$oldname" "$newname"
ooimpress "$newname"
mv "$newname" "$oldname"
----------------SCRIPT----------------
Save it as ooimpress-noshow, do
chmod a+x ooimpress-noshow
and open your pps files with it. You can change association globally (from
Properties on pps file), or (probably better) just for some programs in their
local preferences (Thunderbird, Firefox, ...).
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MS Office .pps files should open in presentation mode as with MS PowerPoint
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302050
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