Hi, On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:54:46AM +0200, Andreas Brogle wrote: > This problem is not as easy as you describe it. > For a "normal" user it is very difficult to find it out. Since a system > uprade libreoffice is unusable slow. What would you think what is the
People doing dist-upgrades of the machine are admins... ;) > reason for? It took me a long time to realize it is a libreoffice-xfce > problem. I searched the internet up and down and couldn't find any hint. Well, but you installed libreoffice-gtk3 manually. (Or do you have libreoffice-gnome installed even for your xfce?) What do other users of your desktop use? But yeah, stuff like this is hard to debug. > How shall I convince others, especially my wife and daughter, to use > libreoffice instead of Microsoft Office if they tell me they don't like > it, because it is slow? They use xfce, too? You don't need to, given you are the admin of the machine, not your wife and your daughter. > I assume there is some kind of mechanism of libreoffice to detect the > environment it is running in. Would it be a great thing to say > libreoffice to use -gtk2 if running under xfce and to forbid to use > -gtk3? I can't imagine that would need more than minimal efford. Yes, there is. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/unx/generic/desktopdetect/desktopdetector.cxx There problem here AFAICS is that Xfce is also detected as GNOME somehow (othwise you probably wouldn't even get Gtk2 UI).. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/unx/generic/plugadapt/salplug.cxx But yes, we probably could add a new "fallback list" there just for Xfce. But for now (you of course need libreoffice-gtk2 installed), try export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk (export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=xfce probably won't work given the "fallback list" above) Regards, Rene
