I can confirm this for Xubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and Xfce with latest updates. To be precise: if I launch any Openoffice instance from the Xfce menu, the default document doesn't get opened - however, equivalent desktop shortcuts work fine. Could therefore be a bug in how the Xfce system menu is handled, though couldn't find anything about this in Xfce bugtracker.
So: which desktop environment are you people using? Anyway, I found a workaround at least for Xfce: in /usr/share/applications, if you remove the "%U" from the end of the exec line in each Openoffice desktop file (for example change "ooffice -writer %U" into "ooffice -writer"), the default documents get opened all right when you click the menu entry. As I mentioned, the desktop shortcuts with the equivalent exec lines work fine: if you drag the desktop files from the aforementioned folder on the desktop - or just create a desktop shortcut through the right- click menu - the "%U"-ending stays, but the default documents still get opened when the the program is started through the shortcut. -- OpenOffice does not open the default document https://launchpad.net/bugs/42612 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
