On Jan 26, 2013, at 21:21 , Larry Linder wrote:

> On Saturday 26 January 2013 11:43 am, Larry Linder wrote:
>> Down loaded SL 5.8, created DVD's and updated test system not a fresh
>> install. The only causality is LibreOffice 3.5.
>> When you open a LibreOffice file and try to edit a file the key board is
>> disconnected.  Once you type to  a LOffice 3.5 document,  display gets
>> dumb, and it eventually asks you to terminate the program.  Did SL 5.8
>> install a new KDE for me?
>> 
>> Everything else appears to work -
>> 
>> I noticed that I now have KDE 4 as a desktop.
>> 
>> Tried to install a new version of LibreOffice 3.6 to see if it would behave
>> differently.   KDE complains that it cannot launch /usr/bin/libreOffice3.6
>> and quits.
>> Looked on Net and there is so much noise about KDE and this subject - Had
>> to quit but never found a solution but KDE developer closed bug report.
>> 
>> Is there a way to regress back to SL5.7 from SL 5.8 , that was on this
>> system?
>> 
>> Fortunately this is only one system and not many.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Larry Linder
> 
> You have to install an export into your .bashrc to get the problem resolved.
> For a global solution you could add it to /etc/bashrc.
> 
> What was tried.
> export  OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none   			Works
> export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 				does not work
> export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP= kde4 libreoffice	does not work
> export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 soffice		may work on open office
> 
> used yum to remove all the openOffice and LibreOffice and reloaded 
> libreOffice3.5 that had previously worked and quit after system was updated 
> to SL 5.8.

Larry,

wherever your KDE is from, it's not from SL5. Nor is your LibreOffice.

All this is really simply off topic.

Regards,
	Stephan

> libreOffice3.5 and libreOffice 3.6 both now work.
> The side effect of this export is that a window pops up asking for a driver.   
> Close it and it does not seem to effect operation.   
> 
> This command must change the input stream for libreOffice but not the 
> interrupt.   The reason I say that is that once you type a character in any 
> kind of document KDE freezes and even a vi of .bashrc will not function till 
> libreOffice is terminated.
> 
> Larry Linder