Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

Hi :)
I know probably everyone else knows this already but i just learned
that i can kill a process by using it's name without needing to find
it's PID!  Since it's often Firefox that misbehaves after i push it
toooo far i find this useful

pkill firefox

Then when i click on Firefox icon to open it again it remembers most
of the tabs i had open and lets me untick a few if i want.
Regards from
Tom :)






On 13 January 2014 18:32, Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Dnia 2014-01-13, o godz. 16:33:32
> minhsien0330 <minhsien0330@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> > Dear all:
> > When we checked the option "Enable systray Quickstarter", we preload
> > libreoffice and have a "Libreoffice logo" icon on system tray.
> > But there are too many icons on my tray, can I preload Libreoffce
> > without tray icon?
>
> Since you have revealed in other message that you are using Linux:
> grab script below, save it, add executable flag (chmod +x scrip.sh) and
> make it run at start of your desktop environment of choice.
>
> Script:
> ------START----------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if ps -C soffice.bin >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>         exit
> fi
>
> sleep 90
> soffice --nodefault --nologo &
> PID=$!
> echo $PID > /tmp/lo-quickstarter
> sleep 10
> kill $PID
> --------END----------
>
> How it works:
> It takes advantage of Linux smart memory management. When you run
> application, Linux loads it into memory (RAM). It stays there then,
> just in case you decide to run it later on. But it is marked as
> "cache", so if you want to open another application, and running low on
> memory, Linux will delete marked data from RAM to make up space for
> this new application.
> In high level steps: this script fires up LibreOffice in non-graphical
> mode (so all libraries etc. are loaded into RAM), wait few seconds and
> then kills process. LibreOffice will be in memory from now on. When you
> start it again, you will perceive that process as much faster.
>
>
> What it does, step by step:
> 1. Check whether libreoffice is running. If it is, just finish. We
> don't want to break anything.
> 2. Wait 90 seconds. Starting graphical interface usually means starting
> a bunch of services and many disk reads. Since LibreOffice is low
> priority (we want our desktop responsive as fast as possible), we
> somehow "queue" it on the end of boot process.
> 3. Run LibreOffice in "non-graphical mode" - hide splash screen and UI.
> 4. Save LibreOffice PID (Process ID - a number that uniquely identifies
> each application running on system) for later use.
> 5. Wait 10 seconds for LibreOffice to finish starting. We don't want to
> interrupt it on start, as something bad might happen (although
> shouldn't).
> 6. Stop LibreOffice, identified by PID earlier. This way we make sure
> that we don't stop another application by mistake.
>
> One drawback that I have noticed - if you force stop LibreOffice with
> documents opened, it will ask you what to do with these documents on
> next start. And this "next start" sometimes happen to be that script
> running. This might lead to unwanted windows popping up shortly after
> machine boot.
>
> I am using that script since some time and I am enjoying LibreOffice
> perceived boot in 4-5 seconds on my dated machine.
> --
> Best regards
> Mirosław Zalewski
>
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