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Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice?
I appreciate it being under .config so as not to add to the clutter of my home directory, but is the "." necessary? It's already in .config!
~/.config/libreoffice would do just fine.
Hi 
Err, sorry, which platform are you on? Is that Bsd? It's not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i dont remember it looking like that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that.
Regards from
Tom
Hello Matthew,
Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice?
It's in ~/.libreoffice here. Thee's not even a (sym)link to it on
~/.config/
Hi
Err, sorry, which platform are you on? Is that Bsd? It's not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i dont remember it looking like that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that.
Regards from
Tom
My platform is Linux. Distribution is Arch. The build instructions are here: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/libreoffice
I don't see anything specifying the user config dir, so I assume what I have is the default.
Hi
I think it might be best to file a bug-report with Arch or Arch's tweaked LibreOffice.
The .libreoffice is a standard across 'all' GNu&Linux distros. I think for most distros that means the path is
/home/username/.libreoffice.org/3/user/
Arch seems to add an extra folder and then tweaks most apps/packages to drop their . that makes the folder a hidden folder. I don't know why they don't do that for LibreOffice so the folder ends up being
/home/username/.config/.libreoffice.org/3/user/
I really like they extra depth in Arch because both my /home and /home/username folders tend to get filled with tons of stuff that i have no idea about what it all does so it's trickier to find things i do want to access.
So i think it would be awkward for TDF to maintain 2 versions of LibreOffice, one for all the other distros and another for Arch family. I think the easiest place to do this would be in Arch somewhere. I don't know tho. What do you think would be best?
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Hmm, i just thought. maybe this guide might help you change the path on your machine
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Just miss out the bits where it installs another version of LibreOffice!
Something else i liked about the Arch install was the inclusion of OpenJdk6 and mozilla-common. IOpenJdk7 has only come out in the last few days so it's a bit too recent to use. You might not need the java runtime at all. I have started unticking it on the various works machines to help LO start-up faster and had no problems so far. It's good to have the OpenSource version available as a fall-back in case you do need java tho even if it is still owned by Oracle. I think for most distros the package/add-on to allow documents to open in a web-browser is called "mozilla-libreoffice" and we would never guess it's different in Arch so it's good to have that included as standard. Both very small packages and including them neatly side-steps a range of potential troubles
The . in the front of the fodler-name only makes the folder hidden. It doesn't really make all that much difference except that you have to remember it when typing out the pathname of course.
Regards from
Tom
Hi Matthew,
Matthew Monaco wrote (14-09-11 03:02)
Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice?
I appreciate it being under .config so as not to add to the clutter of
my home directory, but is the "." necessary? It's already in .config!~/.config/libreoffice would do just fine.
Sorry that I am going to give you an incomplete answer (too much to do)
But I remember (or think so) I have seen a config file in the program dir, that defines the root path, where the user folder, as defined in the /program/boorstraprc file, is placed.
HTH,
So file a bug with Arch. You can verify where the default config is
installed by:
$ locate versionrc
When you find it:
$ cat <path> bootstraprc
Example:
/opt/libreoffice/program/bootstraprc
$ cat /opt/libreoffice/program/bootstraprc
[Bootstrap]
BaseInstallation=${OOO_BASE_DIR}
InstallMode=<installmode>
ProductKey=LibreOffice 3.3
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3
[ErrorReport]
ErrorReportPort=80
ErrorReportServer=
You'll see from the above that the standard user configuration files are
installed in ~/.libreoffice/3
(UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3)
so if Arch are putting them in ~/.config/.libreoffice then it's an Arch
issue, not an LO issue & you should take it up with them.
...
...
So file a bug with Arch. You can verify where the default config is
installed by:$ locate versionrc
Correction:
$ locate bootstraprc
Sorry
Hi
Hmm, i just thought. maybe this guide might help you change the path on your machine
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Just miss out the bits where it installs another version of LibreOffice!Something else i liked about the Arch install was the inclusion of OpenJdk6 and mozilla-common. IOpenJdk7 has only come out in the last few days so it's a bit too recent to use. You might not need the java runtime at all. I have started unticking it on the various works machines to help LO start-up faster and had no problems so far. It's good to have the OpenSource version available as a fall-back in case you do need java tho even if it is still owned by Oracle. I think for most distros the package/add-on to allow documents to open in a web-browser is called "mozilla-libreoffice" and we would never guess it's different in Arch so it's good to have that included as standard. Both very small packages and including them neatly side-steps a range of potential troubles
The . in the front of the fodler-name only makes the folder hidden. It doesn't really make all that much difference except that you have to remember it when typing out the pathname of course.
Regards from
Tom
I know it only makes it hidden. I'm seeing more now. /etc/libreoffice/bootstraprc contains the line:
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3
now I need to figure out where that $SYSUSERCONFIG comes from.