How to permanently get rid of Full Screen toolbar in Writer when in Full Screen mode?

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#1

I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 (Build ID: 4c82dcdd6efcd48b1d8bba66bfe1989deee49c3) on Debian Sid Linux.

The Full Screen toolbar won't close, even though I can remove the Full Screen button from it.

Google found me ways to do it in LibreOffice 3, but those tricks don't seem to work in 4.

Thanks!

#2

I can toggle between showing the toolbar and concealing it with the command
«Ctrl+Shift+J» on Ubuntu 12.04 ; have you tried it on your box ?...

Henri

#3

I can toggle between full screen and non-full screen using that command. What I want to do is get rid of the Full Screen Toolbar when I'm in Full Screen mode. I know how to use the Escape key to get out of full screen mode, so I don't need to waste the screen space on the toolbar.

#4

When I use «Ctrl+Shift+J» I go to full screen without the tool bars. LO 3.6. Is this what you are meaning. «Ctrl+Shift+J» again and I go back to where I was, a window with toolbars.
Steve

#5

What I mean is a full screen view WITHOUT THE FULLSCREEN TOOLBAR (the silly little thing that contains only a button to exit full screen mode). That toolbar always appears in full screen mode and it's the ONLY toolbar that appears in fullscreen mode.

In 3.6, I had it hidden, there are a number of Google search results that explain what to change in 3.6's registrymodifications.xcu file to make it disappear. v4 doesn't seem to have that file anymore, and changes to the 3.6 version in .libreoffice/3 don't make a difference in 4.

#6

So no solution to the above for LibreOffice 4? It can't do something that WordPerfect has done for over 10 years, and MS Word can do? That LO3.6 could do with a bit of configuration file editing?

#7

...

What I mean is a full screen view WITHOUT THE FULLSCREEN TOOLBAR (the
silly little thing that contains only a button to exit full screen
mode). That toolbar always appears in full screen mode and it's the ONLY
toolbar that appears in fullscreen mode.

In 3.6, I had it hidden, there are a number of Google search results
that explain what to change in 3.6's registrymodifications.xcu file to
make it disappear. v4 doesn't seem to have that file anymore, and
changes to the 3.6 version in .libreoffice/3 don't make a difference in 4.

So no solution to the above for LibreOffice 4? It can't do something
that WordPerfect has done for over 10 years, and MS Word can do? That
LO3.6 could do with a bit of configuration file editing?

<https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=libreoffice+%2B+"full+screen"+%2B+toolbar>

  <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg05935.html>

$ locate registrymodifications.xcu
../.config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu

<item
oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.UI.WriterWindowState/UIElements/States/org.openoffice.Office.UI.WindowState:WindowStateType['private:resource/toolbar/fullscreenbar']"><prop
oor:name="Visible" oor:op="fuse"><value>true</value></prop></item>

Suggest that you refile a new bug report & ref this:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52249>
I show the issue on both linux and Windows versions of LO (including the
'Find' toolbar remaining visible):
Version 4.0.2.2 (Build ID: 4c82dcdd6efcd48b1d8bba66bfe1989deee49c3)

#8

...

What I mean is a full screen view WITHOUT THE FULLSCREEN TOOLBAR (the
silly little thing that contains only a button to exit full screen
mode). That toolbar always appears in full screen mode and it's the ONLY
toolbar that appears in fullscreen mode.

In 3.6, I had it hidden, there are a number of Google search results
that explain what to change in 3.6's registrymodifications.xcu file to
make it disappear. v4 doesn't seem to have that file anymore, and
changes to the 3.6 version in .libreoffice/3 don't make a difference in 4.

So no solution to the above for LibreOffice 4? It can't do something
that WordPerfect has done for over 10 years, and MS Word can do? That
LO3.6 could do with a bit of configuration file editing?

<https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=libreoffice+%2B+"full+screen"+%2B+toolbar>

   <http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg05935.html>

$ locate registrymodifications.xcu
../.config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu

<item
oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.UI.WriterWindowState/UIElements/States/org.openoffice.Office.UI.WindowState:WindowStateType['private:resource/toolbar/fullscreenbar']"><prop
oor:name="Visible" oor:op="fuse"><value>true</value></prop></item>

Thanks. That was the same change that worked in v3, I just couldn't find where the xcu file went.

Suggest that you refile a new bug report & ref this:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52249>
I show the issue on both linux and Windows versions of LO (including the
'Find' toolbar remaining visible):
Version 4.0.2.2 (Build ID: 4c82dcdd6efcd48b1d8bba66bfe1989deee49c3)

I see, the Find toolbar also remains visible. I filed bug 63986. Displaying the Find toolbar in Full Screen mode is more complex; if I had it open when I switched to Full Screen mode, I might still want it open. So I suggested GUI config options for both, and the ability to remove the Full Screen toolbar.

It's easy to make the Find toolbar disappear again: just press Ctrl-F, then press Escape and it goes away.

#9

BTW, I need to update my bug report. It works in 32-bit LO. Not in 64-bit.

#10

And just had word from a friend running Debian Wheezy that it doesn't work for him, either.

#11

And turns out he's running 32-bit. So apparently this "fix" may or may not work.