Brian Barker wrote: > At 22:24 14/12/2008 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> In OOo 2.4.1 there was an X at the right top corner of the document >> window as well as an X in the right top corner of the application >> window. Clicking on the one in the document window closed the open >> document leaving the application running. Or you could also close the >> document window and leave the application running by going to File > >> Close. >> >> In 3.0 the X in the document window is missing. There is still a File >> > Close (as well as File > Exit), but clicking on File > Close is the >> same as clicking on File > Exit; that is, it shuts down the >> application. Also, you can go to Window > Close Window, which should >> close the document window and leave the application running, but it >> also closes the application. >> >> 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? >
I'm also running Linux. If I start Writer, I can close the document or the entire application, depending on which "X" I click on. If I click on the document X, I'm left at the "Welcome to OpenOffice.org" screen, where I can create a new document. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
