Suddenly today I can't get an "open dialog". Neither by clicking on the folder/open icon in the toolbar, nor clicking on "Open Ctrl+O" in the File menu, nor using the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+O".
I can open files with $ /opt/libreoffice3/program/swriter somefile.odt or by opening a file manager (pcmanfm in this case) and right clicking and choosing libreoffice as the program to use, and, I can open documents in the "recent documents" list in the open/file menu submenu by clicking on them, but can not get a dialog to seek and open files in any of the libreoffice components (scalc, swriter, etc). This is with Beta 1 on Debian/Lenny. I tried to install the Beta2 this afternoon, after having this issue, but there were dependency problems that were not clear. I'm assuming because it wants gnome (?) and I don't have gnome on my system, and I'm not going to install gnome, either (using openbox). Might have been glibc2? Ctrl+O and/or clicking the menu or toolbar icon all worked fine as recently as yesterday. In fact, I've been successfully using LibreOffice since the day it was publicly announced, quite happily and without any difficulty whatever. Also, and I believe this is significant, when I try to get an open dialog by any of the above means, nothing visibly occurs, however, it appears that soffice.bin is going batshite crazy under the hood. Even after closing the gui, it is spinning around and using mad quantities of memory and cpu until I kill it, like it's really, really trying to give me an open dialog, and sweating like mad in the attempt, but just never gets it up. I had not made an alterations or updates to my system or libreoffice in the last week, prior to seeing this problem Today, as mentioned, I tried to installed the beta2 update, unsuccessfully. I then removed and reinstalled the beta 1, but that doesn't seem to have made any difference, either. I find this all rather odd, and, as one might imagine, rather disconcerting, as being able to open a dialog to seek and open files is rather important. I do not, however, know how to diagnose or resolve the issue, and, thus, seek your assistance. Thanks, Tony -- http://www.baldwinlinguas.com http://www.baldwinsoftware.com -- E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/users/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
