How could Ubuntu release 11.1o with a usless Libre Office - it takes aat least 20 seconds to open a simple file, as many complainants have stated.

Calm down. Ranting achieves nothing...

If you disable the grid plugin the orange thing will go.

Is that your only issue?

Okay, excuse rant. BUT I have done before what you suggested re the orange
panel - it's on the screen as I'm typing this (now I'm on the right hand
side of the page which is okay...and now I'm back with the orange tint -
and nothing has changed. My OTHER complaint was re the agonizingly long
wait for LibreOffice to open even a simple document - 20+ seconds. I have
seen numerous complaints re this already posted - some dated more than six
months ago - but the problem persists. Puzzling thing is, this occurs only
when I click on a document icon, my usual procedure. When I go into
LibreOffice Writer, find my document folder and then open the required
file, BINGO! It opens almost immediately, like it should. So there's the
sum of the problem: if I try opening a file by clicking on it's icon, it
takes the aforementioned 20+ seconds to open. As for this orange
stuff......grrrr. Neither of these problems were present on 11.04 ....

Dispiritedly,

wordsmyth

P.S. I'm using my gmail a/c for this reply, as I'm currently interstate,
but mail to my regular address is fwd. to this one.

On 12/28/2011 09:20 PM, actionparsnip wrote:

Your question #183117 on Ubuntu
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Calm down. Ranting achieves nothing...

If you disable the grid plugin the orange thing will go.

Is that your only issue?

P.S. Info I forgot to add that may help: when I click on a doc. icon to
open it, the Libre Office window appears and the orange loading line STOPS
half way - that's the big wait. The doc. file opens about 20 secs AFTER
this.

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM, wordsmyth <email address hidden> wrote:

> Okay, excuse rant. BUT I have done before what you suggested re the orange
> panel - it's on the screen as I'm typing this (now I'm on the right hand
> side of the page which is okay...and now I'm back with the orange tint -
> and nothing has changed. My OTHER complaint was re the agonizingly long
> wait for LibreOffice to open even a simple document - 20+ seconds. I have
> seen numerous complaints re this already posted - some dated more than six
> months ago - but the problem persists. Puzzling thing is, this occurs only
> when I click on a document icon, my usual procedure. When I go into
> LibreOffice Writer, find my document folder and then open the required
> file, BINGO! It opens almost immediately, like it should. So there's the
> sum of the problem: if I try opening a file by clicking on it's icon, it
> takes the aforementioned 20+ seconds to open. As for this orange
> stuff......grrrr. Neither of these problems were present on 11.04 ....
>
> Dispiritedly,
>
> wordsmyth
>
> P.S. I'm using my gmail a/c for this reply, as I'm currently interstate,
> but mail to my regular address is fwd. to this one.
>
>
> On 12/28/2011 09:20 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
>
> Your question #183117 on Ubuntu changed:https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/183117
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> Calm down. Ranting achieves nothing...
>
> If you disable the grid plugin the orange thing will go.
>
> Is that your only issue?
>
>
>

Can you give the output of:

ls $HOME | grep office; apt-cache policy libreoffice; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Can you give the output of:

ls $HOME | grep office; apt-cache policy libreoffice; lsb_release -a

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SEE BELOW:

lee@lWORDSMYTH:~$ ls $HOME | grep office; apt-cache policy libreoffice;
lsb_release -a
libreoffice:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/oneiric-updates/main
amd64 Packages
     1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ oneiric/main
amd64 Packages
LSB Version:
core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
lee@lWORDSMYTH:~$

P.S. I STILL HAVE THAT DAMNED ORANGE TINT OVER HALF MY SCREEN.

Did you disable the grid plugin in ccsm?

also try closing all libreoffice apps and run:

mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice_old

Then rerun an app, may help

Yes, GRID disabled in UNITY. No change.
Will now try your suggestion re LibreOfiice.

Thanks for the help. Have a GREAT New Year.

If I open a LO document by double clicking the file in the File Browser, it takes 15 seconds to start. However, any subsequent document is opened in about 5 seconds.

Tony, that's what used to happen for me when I was using 11.04, but since updating to 11.10 it now happens with EVERY file I access from a folder...enormously frustrating!

Action parsnip, do I just paste " mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice_old" in terminal, or do I proceed this with 'sudo' or whatever (I'm new to this game)

just run the command as given and it will work

ActionP: when I paste your suggestion above, I get the following message in the terminal:

lee@lWORDSMYTH:~$ mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice_old
mv: cannot move `/home/lee/.libreoffice' to `/home/lee/.libreoffice_old/.libreoffice': Directory not empty

Ok go with:

rm -r ~/.libreoffice

Should be fine

If you want really fast starting, go Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Memory and check "Enable systray Quickstarter".

There are two downsides to this:

1. LibreOffice stays in memory after first start. This may be a problem if you do not have much memory in your machine and have a lot of memory hungry programs running (like I have Firefox open with a zillion tabs).

2. There is a bug that stops Ubuntu shutting down, if the Quickstarter is running. You have to explicitly close the Quickstarter before you close Ubuntu.

ActionP - tried this. No change.
Tony, I don't have "Enable systray Quickstarter" in tools/memory in my present LibreOffice 3 on Ubuntu.11.10.
Looks like my only solution for this problem is to go back to 11.04 (groan) where Libre worked fine...

You can also install libreoffice-gtk from the Software Centre - just search for libreoffice-gtk.

Thanks, Tony. Installed libreoffice-gtk and now Libre is working just fine. After installation, I checked TOOLS and MEMORY and found the systray box restored. Clicked on this and re-tried - and success! No icon appears on the desktop or Launcher, but this presents no problem. Also, that annoying orange panel has curiously disappeared. Perhaps it's a ghost in the machine, that may re-appear. But I hope not. Thanks again - and to ActionP - for your assistance.

Replies from 17/18 solved my problem with Libre Office

Thanks Tony Pursell, that solved my question.