Greetings,

This is not exactly a Slackware problem, but maybe someone has seen it and has a solution.

I am running Slackware Linux 14.1, Xfce 4, and Libreoffice 5.0.6.3 (a repackaged binary .rpm download from the LibreOffice (LO) website).

I prefer to keep several oft-used LO files open all the time. These files are open when I shut down the Xfce session. When I start the next session, LO will not autoload these files and in fact will not run at all. When I then start LO manually from the desktop icon, which uses the LO ".desktop" file, these files are opened. I created a log of the Xfce output from the startup, which included the startup of LO5 and got the following snippet:

...

LibreOffice 5.0.6.3 490fc03b25318460cfc54456516ea2519c11d1aa

Unknown option: --session=2c07016df-92b0-47a4-8398-8d806cdb3d0c

Usage: soffice [options] [documents...]

<a list of all the valid options, of which --session= is not one of them.>

I am not an Xfce expert, so I do not know exactly what is going on here, but it looks like LO changed (this worked with LO 3.x) and no longer processes the --session= option, if indeed this is the root problem. Also, OpenOffice 4.1.2 does not exhibit this problem. The working LO ".desktop" file has:

Exec=libreoffice5.0 %U

I am not sure what %U translates to, but it works where "--session=" does not.

BTW, I do have "Save session for future logins." checked in the Xfce logout dialog. Just for grins, I unchecked it, but nothing changed.

Thanks.
Girvin Herr

IIRC there's an other place in settings to restore your session. Unfortunately, no further information since I do not use xfce, sorry.

If you start LibreOffice without any arguments, it will present you with a screen of your most recent sessions. Is that any help?

Yes, that would work as you describe, but that is not what I am trying to accomplish. I want LO to restore the files I had open when I last shut down. I am currently trying to build the same LibreOffice (LO) version from source code to see if that would correct the problem. It is more time consuming than building a Slack package from the LO binary (rpms), but if it would fix the problem, it may be worth it. In the meantime, I am using Apache OpenOffice (AOO) for my documents and only running LO when I need to use the Base Report Builder, which AOO does not have. AOO does restore my last open files as it should.

Thanks for the help.
Girvin Herr