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Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (Khylsdrak) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:37:37 +0000

The better way is to uninstall OpenOffice to install LibreOffice instead, more efficient, more stable, with more compatibiliy.
OpenOffice is a bad software which must be forgotten.

Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (Rahro) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:54:52 +0000

Hello
GailWindow is usually a gtk compatibility problem

see if you can install GTK2 dependencies

sudo apt install libgtk2.0 libcanberra-gtk-module

and then run it in safe mode

soffice --safe-mode

also can you post

grep -i "error" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

As others pointed out LibreOffice is a much better
But kindly do these things and we'll go from there

Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (PedroReina) — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:18:52 +0000

Heavy LibreOffice user here. I ditched OpenOffice long long ago, even after writing a course to teach how to use it. If your milleage allows it, my suggestion is to give LibreOffice a try.

Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (igorzwx) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:30:35 +0000

[Linux Magazine]
LibreOffice vs OpenOffice
The Clear Choice
By Bruce Byfield
While LibreOffice and OpenOffice have a shared past, LibreOffice outstrips OpenOffice in contributors, code commits, and features.
A search for comparisons of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice returns over 8.3 million results. That number comes as no surprise, given that LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the best-known open source office suites and share a common past. However, what is surprising is how shallow many of those comparisons are. Many offer only a superficial glimpse at either office suite from the viewpoint of an unsophisticated and undemanding user. Often, the comparisons are obsolete. Even more importantly, many comparisons strive for a false sense of objectivity by declaring that any differences are minor. However, by every possible standard, LibreOffice outshines OpenOffice and shows OpenOffice to be outdated. To pretend otherwise is a distortion of the truth.
_https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/LibreOffice-vs-OpenOffice

Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:34:24 +0000

Not familiar with OpenOffice, but my wife uses Libreoffice here quite a bit, mostly writer and calc. And it's been flawless in Devuan.

If you're in a hurry that may be a temp solution until you get the OO issue figured out.

openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

dummy@example.com (amaro) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:40:38 +0000

Hello everybody,

I need to make some YT presentation videos with slides so I installed AOO 4.15 but Xorg crashes every time I start it (both writer and impress).

I read a few comments here and there and installed the following packages: 'libatk-adaptor', 'libgail-common', 'default-jdk' in order to ensure smooth running but that didn't help.

Currently before the crash I get

$ openoffice4

** (soffice:6243): WARNING **: 17:57:32.670: Unknown type: GailWindow

System (daedalus, xfce) is up to date.

Any ideas are appreciated!
Thank you in advance!