LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

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#1

Just discovered that if I accidentally hit Minimise instead of Exit,
the current LO session seems to get lost, and the only way I can get
back into the document is to Logout/Login and go through Recovery
(thereby losing whatever changes I had made in the last session).

After Minimising, how is one supposed to get back into the Minimised
session?

(No such problem with other apps.)

#2

the current LO Writer session

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
When LO starts and offers the "recovery" option then just cancel that recovery.  That should get you to the right version of the document.

As to why LO is crashing in Mageia using KDE 4 i really have no idea.  Does your package-manager have a "fix broken packages" option?  If you installed LibreOffice from their repos then perhaps try the other version directly from the upstream page
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
I am still going with the 4.0.x branch but maybe just go to the updated version 4.0.5.

Regards from

Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Errr, i am not saying there is anything intrinsically wrong with Mageia or their tweaks it's only that i was suggesting changing one of the parameters of the problem to see if that fixes the problem and that might be one of the easiest things to change.

Of course you could try renaming your User Profile and see if that does the trick but somehow i doubt it's going to fix this
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

When LO starts and offers the "recovery" option then just cancel that
recovery. That should get you to the right version of the document.

  OIC. Thanks, Tom!
  
But why is there no simple way to de-Minimise a LO Writer session?

As to why LO is crashing in Mageia using KDE 4 i really have no idea.

  Well, it doesn't exactly *crash*, it just disappears from sight...

I'll stick with the Mageia-3 LO for now, and try to avoid Minimising.

Maurice,

I have noticed with openSUSE with XFCE that using the scroll wheel on an apps title bar will cause it to "disappear".
The title bar is left on the screen. The first time I saw it was rather surprising.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
It 'should' be really easy to "de-minimise".  Writer 'should' have a small tab-type thing in your taskbar/launcher/panel/whatever to show that it's still open and clicking on that 'should' bring the document back.

If it's "just kinda disappearing" then maybe it's weirdly gone to a different workspace without taking you there at the same time.  Try
Ctrl Alt and the keyboard arrow keys
Most distros give you 4 in whichever DE you happen to have chosen.  SliTaz and some others might give just 2 so i press the Ctrl Alt left arrow about 4 times to see what is open on other workspaces.

There is probably some fancy work-space switcher and if you just click and hold down on that it might show you all 4 workspaces at the same time.

However, it just sounds like LO is just misbehaving, perhaps needs a dependency fixed or updated or perhaps a weird tweak or something or maybe an Extension misbehaving.  On my version of LO on this machine it is behaving as you would expect so yours is not behaving normally. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

.. simply because my Panel is on the left horizontal edge of the
screen, and there was insufficient space in the panel to show the
Minimised LO icon!

So LO & Mageia exonerated. Humble apologies.

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
Lqtm, these things happen.  Glad your system is working properly now! :slight_smile:

Mageia is likely to be excellent.  Just a couple of years ago it was new to the scene but in that very short time it has risen to the top-ten, in DistroWatch 'rankings' it's firmly settled in 4th place.  Mandriva rarely got into the top ten even before the fork, i think it hovered around 17th place didn't it?  So, it's another example of the 'new' fork out-performing the original.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: