On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:03:17 +0000 Brian Barker <[email protected]> dijo:
> >Is it a bug that File > Close exits the application? Or is this an > >interface option that I can fix to make it the way it was in 2.4.1? > >Or am I stuck with this? > > What you describe for 2.4.1 is exactly how 3.0 also works for me > (under Windows XP). Note that "application" in this context means > OpenOffice, not just Writer or Calc or whatever. So if you close > your last spreadsheet but still have a text document open, for > example, you may think that Calc has closed whereas the fact is that > OpenOffice, in its guise of Writer, is still running. (Remember that > OpenOffice - unlike some others - is an integrated suite, not a > collection of separate applications.) > > You seem to be using Linux: does the Linux version work > differently? If not, is it possible that you have a rogue instance > of OpenOffice that has not terminated properly? I'm guessing here, > but could that be confusing your system into thinking that OpenOffice > is indeed still running? What happens if you restart your system? Yes, I am using Linux, but the Linux version is not supposed to work differently; that is, the Windows and Linux versions always worked the same in 2.4.1. Now that you suggest that there may be a rogue instance of OOo running, that may be part of the problem. When I launch Writer (I never launch the splash screen, I launch only the individual app that I want; usually Writer) it seems to launch and then nothing appears on the screen. If I look in my System Monitor I see that soffice.bin is running. But in order to get the Writer window to appear I have to click on the launch item a second time. And when that window appears the Close Document options close the entire window, not just the document. In fact, OOo is still running, it's just not visible. I'm pretty sure this is the way it worked on 2.4.1 also. That is, opening Writer started OOo. The difference is that in 2.4.1 when I closed the document a program window remained. And if I went to File > Exit in the program window it did completely shut down OOo. Now when I close the document everything disappears so I have no idea whether OOo is still running or not, save opening System Monitor. And there is no way to shut down OOo short of going to System Monitor and killing it. I don't know if this is by design. If so I don't know whose idea it was, but it wasn't a good one. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
