workout: you can load quickstarter automatically in gnome by adding ooffice -quickstart -nologo -nodefault
(http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/OpenOffice.org/Installation) to the sessions autoload list. but this doesn't show the symbol in the taskbar neither -- OpenOffice quickstarter won't stay active https://launchpad.net/bugs/89545 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs