Re: [libreoffice-users] Startup options

On 3/24/2011 4:15 AM, James Wilde wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 02:19 , Michel Gagnon wrote:
>
> > Le 2011-03-23 19:23, Andy Brown a écrit :
> > > Roger Stein wrote:
> > > > Is there any way to start any of the individual Libre Office
> > > > applications so that you don't automatically go back to the Application
> > > > Menu when you close a document? For example, I open a writer document,
> > > > edit it, and then close it and remain in the writer application.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Roger Stein
> > >
> > > On the upper right end of the top Menu Bar is an X box, click that and Writer will close and leave 
> > > you in the Start screen. The Start/Splash is the same screen you get if you start soffice instead 
> > > of one of the programs.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > Yes indeed. However, if I understand correctly the question, Roger wants to know if there is a way 
> > to keep a standard Write window open, but with a grey work zone, just like what happens with 
> > Microsoft Windows.
> >
> > To that, I'll say NO. I would add that most (all?) modules of LibreOffice are more tightly integrated than 
> > those of Microsoft Office, so no time or resources are "wasted" by loading the start screen.
>
> But in MS Word, when one closes the last open document, the grey screen is not a new document that 
> you can start typing in - it's just background.  You still have to click on File/New or File/Open.  
> Personally I also found the Start screen (where one can choose a type of document or open a 
> template) a bit of a nuisance.  Someone reported on a way to skip that screen both at start-up and 
> on closing a document back in the days before LibO, and I implemented it, and carried my profile 
> over to LibO, so it works that way.  LibO now starts directly into a Writer doc (NOTE: I do NOT 
> have a script that calls LibO with a parameter).  I'm not sure whether it was in the preferences, 
> or somewhere in the menu system that this setting was found, but it was well-hidden.
>
> Unfortunately, I have forgotten how it was done, and I haven't yet been able to find the original 
> references to it by searching the archives at OOo.
>
> If anyone sees this and remembers, please let me know.  It will also help the OP.
>
> //James

Find the writer executable, create a shortcut to it (place it where you 
wish it to appear) and that shortcut will open writer direct and when 
you close writer it is closed completely.

--
Gene Young

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