I use open-office quite a lot, mainly for spreadsheets. I find the document recovery console extremely annoying, its as tenacious as a playful puppy that’s just eaten a bag of haribo. I know for sure other people are also irritated by it and I don’t think Ive ever used it intentionally.
So finally Ive found a way to stop it…
alias oocalc=’oocalc -nologo -norestore’
alias oowriter=’oowriter -norestore -nologo’
added to my.bashrc and no more shouting at openoffice. It also gits rid of the splash screen that only obscures ones typing elsewhere for a few seconds. I guess this doesn’t work for icon clicking but that’s fine by me, I basically don’t use icons. Presumably there is a way to pass arguments with shortcuts.
NB: This has had only minor testing and removes a saftey-net, so be sure you actually want this
