I'm not even sure that this is where I should be bringing this issue. I'm bringing t here mostly because I'm not sure if the issue is with LibreOffice itself or with some other update that's interfering with it. I tried doing a rollback using this command:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa
That didn't seem to do anything other than tell me that it couldn't find the package. It is installed though. I went to the software boutique to try to uninstall and reinstall it, but the option to uninstall it wasn't even available. So, I did an install from App Grid as it seemed to think that it wasn't installed. Still no joy. I open up a document, and it closes immediately. Does anyone have any idea about what the problem could be and how to fix it?
So, I tried opening up LibreOffice in a terminal to see what kind of error messages I might get, and this is what popped up:
(soffice:12252): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
(soffice:12252): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
(soffice:12252): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
(soffice:12252): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
(soffice:12252): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
The last time LibreOffice updated the icons were visibly too small. I hadn't used a terminal to open it, and it was able to stay open without crashing, but the icons were too small. Now I'm getting a message that they're too large. I'm just wondering if this is just LibreOffice or if there is something about 16.04 that doesn't mesh well with this software. I've read a few comments (not here) that others have had problems with it on 16.04 as well.
I saw this as a potential solution on the askubuntu forum:
I was able to solve the problem by installing the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. Seems to be a problem with the generic modesetting xorg driver in my case.
The thing is that I already have the xserver-xorg-video-intel package installed. There's another package that can be installed instead: xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-16.04. I'm just not sure what swapping those out will do to my system. Is anyone familiar with the difference between these two packages?
Hi @Van_Burgett, I’m guessing something in your configuration settings may be corrupt or incompatible. It’s in your home directory at:
~/.config/libreoffice/.
If you delete or rename it, it will be created again when you run something. Here is a terminal command to rename it:
mv ~/.config/libreoffice/ ~/.config/libreoffice.old/
Sorry, I’m not familiar with the Intel xorg packages. I’d try the config first.
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Wow! Thanks so much. That seems to have done the trick.
Great! You can delete that old directory since it has no use, now.
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