Summary: | openoffice-1.1.3 breaks after being started as a Firefox helper application | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | John Altstadt <altstadt> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Office Team <office> |
Status: | VERIFIED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | bugzilla |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://portal.dfpug.de/dFPUG/Dokumente/Partner/Linuxtransfer/osw_installingooo.doc | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
John Altstadt
2004-10-29 11:41:56 UTC
Minor revision: the only way to get OOo working again is to reboot. I'm pretty sure that restarting networking would also work, since it appears to be hung up on a socket, but that would probably leave my system more messed up than not being able to use OOo. How do you start an OOo application in a Firefox tab? I'm not familiar with the procedure. Edit->Preferences->File Types->Downloads->File Types If you ever start downloading a file that OOo can open (e.g. doc, xls) and tell the download dialog what OOo command to use the open the file, then firefox will embed the OOo application in the web browser window and record that mime type and application in the Preferences dialog as seen above. If you middle mouse click some time later, then it will open a new tab and automatically launch OOo in that tab. about:plugins says that I have: Blackdown-1.4.1-01 (javaplugin_oji.so) Default (libnullplugin.so) QuickTime Plug-in 6.0, mplayerplug-in (mplayerplug-in.so) nppdf.so (nppdf.so) Shockwave Flash (libflashplayer.so) I can reproduce that, but: I don't think OOo-docs are meant to be read in firefox, anyway there is not a lot we can do about this at the moment, so marking cantfix. One thing more: You don't have to reboot, killing the soffice process should be sufficient As I stated in my initial report, I couldn't find any relevant application running using ps -ef, i.e. there was no soffice (or soffice.bin) task listed. That said, time has passed and I thought it worthwhile to re-test this so that I could report it upstream. Now I have openoffice-1.1.4 and mozilla-firefox-1.0 (I wish I had recorded what version of firefox I was using at the time, but judging from the date it had to have been 1.0_rc1 or earlier). With the new versions of software, OOo does not embed itself in the Firefox browser window (which makes me happier because I hated that embedding stuff), and everything is working. |