Installing StarOffice 5.1 on KDE desktop (a tip) 1

[Octalman]

When I installed StarOffice on the KDE desktop under SuSE Linux 6.2, I could not get it to run by clicking on its icon, only by command (soffice &) in an xterm. SuSE's email helpdesk's only suggestion was the xterm route. After a lot of sleuthing, I finally discovered that<br>
/root/Desktop/StarOffice was a link to /root/StarOffice, which in turn is a dummy file, apparently used only to hold permissions by way of its directory entry.<br>
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There is a template file, /root/Desktop/Templates/Program, but I had no idea what belonged in the missing real<br>
/root/Desktop program file. There is a file for Netscape (which was already installed as part of the system setup),<br>
/root/Desktop/Netscape.kdelnk, which looked to be very similar in content, but with the blanks filled, so I copied it to /root/Desktop/StarOffice.kdelnk and edited it. The only real question turned out to be which icon file to reference, because there are two, l_soffice.xpm and s_soffice.xpm; either one will work.<br>
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Name=Star Office 5.1, Exec=soffice, and Icon=l_soffice.xpm were the only settings changed in the borrowed Netscape file. BinaryPattern=netscape;Netscape; needs to remain as-is unless you want to add another type. I took the original setup icon for StarOffice to the trash and now run StarOffice with a click on the new icon.<br>
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This was originally posted on deja's SuSE forum, but the readership there is very small, so I cleaned it up for here.<br>
Hope it helps someone.<br>

 

[warmongr]

Thanks for the tip. I also have a star office issue. Both at work and at home, I run so5.1. At work under RH6.0 and at home with Mandrake 6.1 recently upgraded from 5.3. My problem is with the email feature. It tends to lock up the whole system for several minutes while checking my email. If I check my email using netscape of kmail, poof-instantaneous. Has anyone else had this problem. I use an IMAP and a POP server. IMAP for work and POP for home.<br>
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