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amaro

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Registered: 2022-02-08

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openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

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!

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

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.

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igorzwx

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Registered: 2024-05-06

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Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

[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 However, by every possible standard, LibreOffice outshines OpenOffice and shows OpenOffice to be outdated.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

PedroReina

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From: Madrid, Spain

Registered: 2019-01-13

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Re: openoffice writer and impress constantly crash Xorg

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.