Re: [libreoffice-users] offline Help LO 25.8.4.2

Greetings,
I installed Mageia, and I saw that the content of the LO help folder
(in /lib64/.../help) is quite different from the help folder in my
Fedora installation done from the LO site (in /opt/.../help). This may
explain why a non-browser application is opened when you call the
online help.

On Fedora/Gnome (and I guess on other distributions), you can re-direct
the opening of the help by going into Nautilus and navigating to the
/.../help folder of the LO installation. Once there, right-click on the
file index.html, and select Open With... In the pop-up that comes up,
select the "Help" application (the one that has a life saver as icon)
and select the "Always open with this application" button at the
bottom. Once that is done, the Gnome Help application will be used to
display the LO help. I am not 100% sure of what that will do with
general browsing, but it otherwise seems to work.

I hope this helps.
Rémy.

Le dimanche 18 janvier 2026 à 14:20 -0500, John Kaufmann a écrit :
> On 2026-01-16 17:35, aguador wrote:
> ...El vie, 16-01-2026 a las 11:36 -0500, Remy Gauthier escribió:...
> I do the same with the help in French. I install the helppack_en-US
> and helppack_fr and everything works well. Do remember that even if
> you have the offline help installed, the help is still displayed
> using your default browser. ...Wondering if this can be configured.
> While I see nothing in the LO
> configuration for help, off-line help in Mageia has always opened in
> a
> popup window, not in the browsers. Just tested this with LO 24.2.7.2
> and 26.2.0.1, both installed from the Mageia 9 and 10 repositories,
> respectively.
>
>
> The icon on the help window border identifies it as soffice.bin.
> Having
> that window open adds one open file to the running soffice.bin
> process
> according to the process monitor.
> ...Interesting! - is that behavior a Mageia thing (not
>     browser-dependent)?  - that is, that a URL <file//.> is
>     handled by the OS, not passed to the browser?  If so, then I like
>     your thought - can other OS be so configured? - but that might
>     depend on whether other OS have such a <file//.> handler.FWIW,
> what is  your browser?-John

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