Bug 34622

Summary:	feature request: program that forces save and exit all instances of office
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	sasha.libreoffice
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	sasha.libreoffice, thomas.lendo
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.3.0 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	77999

Description sasha.libreoffice 2011-02-23 07:41:06 UTC

I much work in Libreoffice. Allmost all is ok. But time to time my videocard hangs. Screen become black or freeses. All programs continue to work, but I can see nothing. An I should save all unsaved documents. I can switch to text console or press some hotkeys.

I propose: create small program that forces all instances of Libre and Open office to save documents and exit. If document created and never saved then it not need to been saved, only close.

I can then start this program form text mode console or from ssh or assign it on keybinding in desktop.

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:49:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
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Comment 2 Joel Madero 2012-06-17 19:51:13 UTC

I'm setting this as a High Enhancement as I think it would be useful for many of us :) Thanks for the suggestion

Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2017-05-24 13:09:41 UTC

Is this something that should be programmed in LibO or as an external program? Do video card problems still occur to this extent?

Maybe a WONTFIX.

Comment 4 Thomas Lendo 2017-09-22 13:09:57 UTC

Set "AutoSave/AutoRecovery" meta bug as blocking bug due to the fact that autorecovery should work correctly to bring all the stuff you didn't save back up the next time you run LO. That would be the best way to fix this issue for all instances. That would mean a WORKSFORME.

Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2019-11-29 13:29:09 UTC

Changing priority back to 'medium' since the number of duplicates is lower than 5

Comment 6 Justin L 2023-08-09 13:17:52 UTC

I have found that "pkill -6 soffice" triggers an emergency save, so that should help for immediate results. (6 == SIGABRT)

Also, as comment 4 notes, autorecovery should save any modified documents (after 10 minutes). [Note that this was broken - off by default - in 7.x, but fixed for 24.2.]. I agree with WORKSFORME - certainly there is no call for a LO specific command line tool to be introduced for this purpose.