[SOLVED] LibreOffice-Quickstart-Icon in the KDE systray

[Arny006]

Dear Mates,

For some application (Kmess, FFGTK, Skype, Radiotray) I put one Autostart in the Systemsettings. These application start automatically by systemstart an remain minimized in the Systray.
That don't work with LibreOffice-Quickstarter, even the option "Start LibreOffice with Systemstart" is not present under:
LibreOffice>Extra>Options>LibreOffice>Memory>

How can I get LibreOffice-Quickstart-Icon in the systray of Linux Mint Nadia 14 KDE 64-Bit?

Thanks in advance and best regards. Arny

[Arny006]

Some people coming from Windows world use the „quick-start“-icon in the systray with correlated utilities like faster start of LO-applications, direct opening of templates, etc.. That's useful for people using frequently LO.

For some reasons, the icon don’t appear in LO under KDE out of the box.
The responsible package is “libreoffice-kde”. What this package is doing is not known by me.

Don’t hurry now by purge this package. Following I will explain How-To.

1. install/reinstall (if not yet done) following packages over "synaptic": libreoffice-kde libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk
Or over the command-line (Konsole/Terminal) as follow:

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sudo -s
sudo apt-get -y install --reinstall libreoffice-kde libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk

2. We set the autostart (=preload) in “systemsettings”
Start “systemsettings>Start-End>Insert Application>Office>LibreOffice
Note: Take the white rectangular Icon of LO

Check under:
- General: qstart
- Program>Name: LibreOffice Quickstarter
- Program>Comment: Hook for quickstarter startup
- Program>Command: libreoffice --norestore --quickstart --nologo --nodefault

Alternative:
Open Files-Manager, enable view of hidden files & navigate to: /home/username/.config/autostart/
Create new text-file named: qstart.desktop
Open text-editor as admin with "Alt+F2" kdesudo kate
Open File> enable view of hidden files & open the "qstart.desktop" located in the above-mentioned folder
Insert following text, save & close:

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Office;
Exec=libreoffice --norestore --quickstart --nologo --nodefault
Icon=libreoffice-main.png
NoDisplay=true
Name=LibreOffice Quickstarter
Comment=Hook for quickstarter startup

Note: if you prefere LO restore crashed files, please delete the "--norestore" start-option in the "Exec=" line

3. Start a couple of times an LO-application & close afterward all them
4. Open now "synaptic" and purge the "libreoffice-kde" package. Don't worry, with this action you will delete only this package and not the complete LO-suite.

Finish. If you now start an LO-application appear in the systray the white rectangular icon as usual in all other OS's do.

Note: Replace "username" with your name.

Tweaks:
1. Some people complain LO-applications-start is too slow or navigation in big files with pictures inside is not smoth. Solution:
- Open LibreOffice>Extra>Options>LibreOffice>Memory>Graphic-Cache>
* Used by LibreOffice: 256 MB (That's maximum memory assignable)
* Memory pro Object: 12,8 MB (That's the result of division of Graphic-Cache used by LO & Number of Objectes =256/20)
2. Some other people complain LO-applications take too long for save files. Solution:
- Open LibreOffice>Extra>Options>Load-Save>General>
* Save auto-recovery infos each: 8 Minutes

Trick:
Have you already installed LibreOffice in Windows or other Linux operating system and want to use the same extensions, vocabulary, auto-correction, etc.?
Just copy everything. The folder you are loocking for is under:
Linux: /home/username/.config/Libreoffice
Vista and later: C:\Users\username\AppData\libreoffice

Enjoy