[PLUG] What do you call it? LibreOffice preview screen?

[King Beowulf]

On 07/26/2017 08:11 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I have an annoyance with Libre Office. I have a spreadsheet that I set 
> to take up a certain amount of screen space. If I have nothing else open 
> in LibreOffice, and I close that spreadsheet, but not LibreOffice, I get 
> what I'm sure they intend to be a helpful preview kind of window with a 
> column of commands on the left and a collection of recently used 
> documents on the right. My annoyance is with how the window size does 
> not revert to the size I had set for the spreadsheet when I reopen it.
> 
> My problem is that I don't know what to call what I'm seeing so I can 
> search and see if there's a way to change it. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Dick,

The LibreOffice window (start screen) that shows recent files, and
templates, and has a list if "Create" options, will open a document in
what ever size THAT windows is in currently. If you resize that window,
exit and re-open, it will open in the new size.  Then any document you
open will be in that size.  Each module works the same way.

As of my LibreOffice 5.3.4.2, anyway.

As far as I know, libreoffice does not have a command line option to set
window size/geoemtry.  In a terminal, type 'soffice -h' to see a list of
command line options.

Now, once you set the size for each module (calc, writer etc), each will
have its own default size - as long as you NEVER open the start screen.
Once you open a module via the start screen that module will reset to
the start screen size.

The interwebs are full of people complaining about this in both LO and
OpenOffice for years.

Some WM/DE allow you to set application geometry (KDE?) but since I use
Xfce I wouldn't know.

-Ed