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

[Dick Steffens]

On 07/26/2017 09:55 PM, King Beowulf wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that has been my experience for a few years.


> <...>
>
> 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.

Right. That's the problem.

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

It sounds like what I need to do is to remember never to close the last 
LO open document without closing LO.  As long as I'm starting from 
scratch LO opens documents in the location and at the size the last 
document of that type was when it was closed. That's the behavior I want.

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

That might be useful for some folks, but I'm interested in keeping the 
geometries of a particular group of spreadsheets, and Writer files. I 
suspect the reason it only recently showed up for me is that I've 
switched my monitors, left to right, and the screen real estate is 
smaller where I open the spreadsheet not. As noted above, I'll have to 
learn to avoid closing the last document, leaving the LO start screen open.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens