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glib

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 46

[How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

I came across from Gentoo and couldn't get the openoffice beta to use gtk widgets. I copied over the wrapper script (that they had apparently copied over from Mandrake) and changed the path to match Arch's install location. Save it, run it with the --widget-set flag:

oowriter2 --widgets-set gtk

I assume replacing gtk with qt works, but I don't have qt installed so I couldn't tell you for certain. Anyway, looks like this:

and the wrapper script:
click me!

kasa

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From: Italy

Registered: 2005-07-21

Posts: 48

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Good work !!
But without using your script, you can

echo "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome" >> ~/.bashrc

done ! 

glib

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 46

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Cool! Thanks for the tip. That's a little easier.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I can't get it to work. You see, there is no "oowriter2" executable, only "soffice" in /usr/bin, and that gives me the error "/home/proteus/gtk does not exist."

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Try kasa's suggestion - that's what I've been doing since I upgraded, and it's working fine. Actually, I put it in /etc/profile, but the effect is the same.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Oh, you have to relogin before it takes effect right? :oops:

glib

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 46

Re: [How-To] Enable gtk widgets in openoffice2

Or just

source ~/.bashrc

.

As for my method (the worse of the two IMO), you needed to download the oowriter2 script at the bottom of my post.