Xmonad and Libreoffice/OOo

Hi,
I am very satisfied with my Xmonad setup .
But there's one issue that's annoying me and other users. For them it's even a showstopper. It's the phenomenon that Openoffice or Libreoffice gets into a tight loop when opening a dialog-box. Sometimes even a hard reset is necessary to find a way out.
I am using Xmonad-darcs and my xmonad.hs file is inspired on the beautiful one of pbrisbin.
I've tried the following but for the time being all in vain :
1) added SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen to the .bash_profile file
2) replaced Openoffice with Libreoffice
3 replaced jre with openjdk6
However the problem persists. I would be very grateful to solve this issue. A working solution might even be a useful addition to the Wiki.
I know that Openoffice and Libreoffice don't fit very well in a mean and lean Xmonad setup (Latex with (g)vim are 'ideologically' more appropriate ). But sometimes I've no choice if I want to keep on communicating in *.doc files with my colleges....
Thx in advance.

Thanks AndyRTR for you quick reply and suggestion.
But to which setting are you referring? A setting in xmonad.hs, in Libreoffice or elsewhere?
I am using the following modules:
32 import XMonad.Actions.CycleWS
33 import XMonad.Actions.CycleWindows (rotFocusedUp, rotFocusedDown)
34 import XMonad.Actions.UpdatePointer
35
36 import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
37 import XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive
38 import XMonad.Hooks.ManageHelpers
39 import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
40 import XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook
41
42 import XMonad.Layout.IM
43 import XMonad.Layout.LayoutHints (layoutHintsWithPlacement)
44 import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders
45 import XMonad.Layout.PerWorkspace (onWorkspace)
46 import XMonad.Layout.ResizableTile
47 import XMonad.Layout.Tabbed
48 import XMonad.Layout.TwoPane
49 import XMonad.Layout.Reflect
50
51 import XMonad.Util.EZConfig (additionalKeysP)
52 import XMonad.Util.Loggers (maildirNew,dzenColorL,wrapL)
53 import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
54 import XMonad.Util.Scratchpad
55 import XMonad.Util.WindowProperties (getProp32s)
56 import XMonad.Util.WorkspaceCompare (getSortByXineramaRule)
57
58 import Data.List
59 import Data.Monoid
60 import Data.Ratio
61
62 import System.IO
63 import System.Exit
64
65 import qualified Data.Map as M
66 import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

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haskell2010-1.1.1.0
haskell98-2.0.0.2
hoopl-3.9.0.0
hpc-0.6.0.0
integer-gmp-0.5.0.0
mtl-2.1.2
old-locale-1.0.0.5
old-time-1.1.0.1
pretty-1.1.1.0
process-1.1.0.2
random-1.0.1.1
rts-1.0
template-haskell-2.8.0.0
time-1.4.0.1
transformers-0.3.0.0
unix-2.6.0.1
utf8-string-0.3.7
xmonad-0.11
xmonad-contrib-0.11
I will test my system and mark the thread solved. Thank you for the help

Missing text in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Libreoffice

On my laptop, when I run Firefox, Thunderbird, or Libreoffice maximized, everything in the top part of the window is fine. But, there is a line about 2/3 of the way down the window below which there most of the text is gone. (this line may even be halfway throught a line of text, such that the top part of the word is displayed, but the bottom part is not.)
Examples of missing text (all below the line):
In all cases, the text on status bars (like those at the bottom of the window) is gone, however, loading bars are still there.
In firefox, images will be there, underlines for links will be there, but the text will not.
In Thunderbird, the message view is fine, but all of the system status bars, including but not limited to message info and the notifications, such as "this might be a scam" or "Do you want to load the images?" are not. I do not know whether the message entries in the inbox are there because that is always above the line.
In libreoffice, all text, including the actual document text, status bars, and the entries on the start screen (create new text document, create new spreadsheet, etc.) are affected.
However, if I run libreoffice or firefox via Xforwarding over an ssh tunnel from my desktop, everything works fine, subject of course to network latency. (I do not have Thunderbird on my desktop, I use claws instead, which also does work fine.)
Also, if I shrink the window to half-height, then the problem no longer exists.
I have tried reinstalling libreoffice, firefox, thunderbird, the xserver, and my graphics drivers (nouveau) using the --recursive option, and nothing has changed. I cannot tie this problem to any particular system operation (such as an update), but that does not mean that it is unrelated to such an event.
Window manager: xmonad
Desktop environment: none
Video driver: nouveau
Model: Dell Inspiron 8600
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I am tired of only using the bottom half of my screen.

Thanks for pointing that out. I probably would have scratched my head over that one sooner or later. Unfortunately, that is not the solution to this problem. Keep in mind that ~2/3 of the window is perfect.

Finder issue after Mavericks and LibreOffice

The upgrade to Mavericks was ok, only for one detail: it deleted the LibreOffice from apps.
After the re-install of LO, Finder got a bug: when it arranges/organizes files per Type, it shows, at top (before the folders) files (documents) related to LO (docs, odts, odgs, etc).
I've tryed changing to None, than back to Type. Uninstalled LO. But the problem persists: it does not show Folders at top in any folder that has a doc or odt file in it.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Ciao Von Stripes,
I've just found the solution:
Open - System Preferences, then open - Spotlight
There is a list of categories.
Find - Files on the list, then click, drag and drop to the position number 1 and "voilá"
I hope it works for you too...

Run process in xmonad and capturing output

Hi!
For my xmonad config, I need something like spawn, but that will return any output from the process spawned.
I was thinking of using runProcessWithInput from Xmonad.Utils.Run.
Is there a better way to do this?

You may find runProcess from System.Process to be of some help. It takes several options, including handles for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR.

Find a window in XMonad and apply some actions to it

Hi everyone, I think this should be really easy for someone who's good at Haskell but I just couldn't figure it out as I'm bad at it.
Basically I want to search through the list of windows in the current workspace, find one matching some condition and apply some action to it; if not found then create this window.
I had a skeleton code like this
import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W
import XMonad.Actions.WindowGo
findWindow condition actionIfFound actionIfNotFound =
ifWindow (condition <&&> member W.current) windowFound actionIfNotFound
where windowFound = ask >>= w -> do actionIfFound w

Hi guymatsuda,
If you are having an issue locating a previously purchased song, you may find the following articles useful:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Apple Support: Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
- Brenden

XMonad and Compiz (source)

I inquired and finally received back information on this project and figured you guys might be interested.
Here is the email's text:
Follow the instructions to compile from:
http://wiki.compiz.org/C%2B%2BCompiling
replace the src direction from the git clone of core with the attached tar
before compiling compiz
things that use the mouse or workspace management generally dont work.
everything else should work ok.
you'll need to compile extra plugins etc.
All credit goes to tux_mark_5 from #xmonad
I've thrown up the necessary data at my github, so feel free to play with it. Enjoy :>

Square wrote:
I inquired and finally received back information on this project and figured you guys might be interested.
Here is the email's text:
Follow the instructions to compile from:
http://wiki.compiz.org/C%2B%2BCompiling
replace the src direction from the git clone of core with the attached tar
before compiling compiz
things that use the mouse or workspace management generally dont work.
everything else should work ok.
you'll need to compile extra plugins etc.
All credit goes to tux_mark_5 from #xmonad
I've thrown up the necessary data at my github, so feel free to play with it. Enjoy :>
Thanks for this, I saw that vid a while back and did wonder.
How are you finding it? Did you run into any issues?

[solved] icu, firefox and libreoffice woes

Don't know if this should be reported as a bug, but...
I updated firefox, which wouldn't start because of a icu dependency.
Updated icu, and nss, which showed as the next dependency.
Libreoffice then wouldn't start because it couldn't find the right version of libicuuc (sorry I don't remember which)
So I upgraded libreoffice to libreoffice-fresh.
It said: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.53: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Checked the version of libicuuc.so which is installed - it's 54.
I'm hoping the packages are just out of sync and if I try again in a day or two it will work...
If this is not the case, any suggestions, anyone?
TIA
Last edited by throbscottle (2014-10-31 22:43:03)

throbscottle wrote:Hmmm, I was trying to avoid that.
Then you are doing it wrong: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nsupported

Apache openoffice and libreoffice

I have seen that Oracle has given openoffice to the Apache foundation. One question I have is if the libreoffice fork still necessary. It was my understanding that Oracle prevented good development of openoffice and claim too much control. But now? What's the main reason to keep to have two versions?

olive wrote:
Lone_Wolf wrote:Apache Openoffice appears to target enterprise and business users, while libreoffice focuses more on individual users.
They also use different licenses, so i doubt the 2 will merge again.
You may be right but I can't prevent me to think that this is sad. How business users can be so different to individual users in regards of an office suite? (M$ sell basically the same office suite to both clients, apart some differences that do not justify a new product). As for the license, do we really need two projects for that? The LGPL as well as the apache license allows proprietary linking...
I wonder if Linux distributions (and archlinux in particular) will now ship openoffice again. I thought after the fork that Libreoffice will have been just the continuation of openoffice while openoffice itself will die (recalling the Xorg fork of Xfree86). But now? We can't just say that the Apache foundation do everything wrong as we may have said with Oracle.
The distros didn't all ship with OpenOffice before; Ubuntu and OpenSuSE both shipped with go-openoffice. Anyway, the OpenOffice brand took a pretty big hit, so I don't see any distros switching back.
As far as licensing is concerned, Microsoft does make different versions of Office - Student, Professional, etc., targeting different segments. Feature segregation won't really apply here, so I am also not sure I buy the enterprise-consumer split either.

Xmonad and dmenu options

I've been using xmonad for a while now, and just started playing with Xmonad.Actions.WindowBringer.
It uses dmenu for the menu, and I can't for the life of me figure out where to put the options that I want to use for dmenu. Things like different, and bigger font, different colors, etc....
I looked at the windowbringer.hs file, and found something about dmenu opts = menu dmenu opts or something like that. So I thought that if I could modify that in my ~/.xmonad.hs file, I would be good, but on recompile, I kept getting an error message about that line, so was I on the right track or is there an easier way to do it?

I did not know that, but then again, I only tried dwm (which dmenu came from, if I remember right) for a little while, as I got tired or recompiling it all the time.
I'll give it a shot, though, when it's updated thru pacman.... but I'll try it. Thanks.

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