In a dual screen setup, while a presentation is playing, there is no way on the presenter screen to minimize the presenter screen, in order to do other things in windows. (Work on another document, play solitaire, check a web page, etc) I describe the issue here: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-issue-on-Windows-XP-tp2295698p2295698.html
thorsten, any idea
I was able to work around this by removing the "presenter-screen" directory from the "extensions" directory, located here: C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\share\extensions
In LibreOffice 4.0 this is no longer an extension, but a core feature. Thus, it cannot be disabled anymore. I think it would be nice to have a way to move the Presenter Screen from full-screen to a window.
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In LibreOffice 4.0, I can delete "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4.0\program\PresenterScreen.uno.dll", and it will behave as I have been needing it to. This works just the same as deleting the extensions folder in LibreOffice 3.
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It still can't be minimized but option to disable the bundled Presenter Console is a LibreOffice 4.1 feature - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#Impress
Apologies for not having gotten around fixing this bug yet; unfortunately in future I'll have even less time at my disposal for this, so I'm freeing up ownership for other volunteers to take over.
That is a MS-Windows only bug because under Linux (and OS-X ?) you can switch to another desktop (for example ctrl+alt+right arrow on Unity/Ubuntu) and you don't need to minimize the PresenterConsole to be able to work in another opened window. Best regard. JBF
I've created an issue for this on Freedomsponsors: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/484/minimizing-the-presenter-screen-while-presentation-is-active-ui Please consider sponsoring this. Whoever fixes it, gets some money.
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Issue - that Presenter Console screen occupies the whole screen, precluding other windows as it cannot be minimsed or resized down - is still present and a problem with Libre Office 4.4.4, running on Windows 7. The Presenter Console screen should run as a normal window, able to be minimised or resized (as described in bug 62414, closed as duplicate of this.
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This bug was still present in LibreOffice 5.1.2 on Windows 10 yesterday. We had a dual screen and the presentation played fine on the second screen but we could not turn off or minimize the Presenter Console on the 1st screen.
This bug still exists - and is a needed fix! Impress/Libreoffice 5.4.0.3, Linux Mint 17.3 cinnamon 64 bit Cannot access Taskbar or other applications from the presenter console, as the presenter console takes up the full screen. If the Presenter Console were handled as a window (as suggested in the bug duplicates) it would be perfect. Please fix, this is an old bug!
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still the same in Version: 6.1.0.3 (x64) Build ID: efb621ed25068d70781dc026f7e9c5187a4decd1 Thread CPU: 8; SO: Windows 6.1; Resa interfaccia: predefinito; Versione locale: it-IT (it_IT); Calc: group threaded
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Bug is still present in latest LO (6.3.3) on Windows 10 (1909)
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this seems like an enhancement
We have many reports and users here and this looks desired and I hope not too tough to make, once volunteer steps in. In the meantime, we can just use Alt+Tab to switch window and come back.
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(In reply to Timur from comment #24) > We have many reports and users here and this looks desired and I hope not > too tough to make, once volunteer steps in. > In the meantime, we can just use Alt+Tab to switch window and come back. Alt-tab is a poor work-around in some cases: many of us are relying heavily on Zoom meetings these days. When you screen-share in Zoom, Zoom places a narrow control panel at the top of the screen, which floats on top of shared applications if they are maximized or smaller than screen size. But if the shared application is full screen, it covers the Zoom control panel, so you can't see notifications etc. Alt-Tab is a reasonable way to access a hidden application to DO something, but it is a clumsy way to poll for incoming chats or other notifications. I understand that LibreOffice owes nothing to Zoom, but there are probably a lot of us sharing Impress presentations in Zoom meetings. So this is just a vote to raise the priority of the feature.
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #23) > this seems like an enhancement Yes, with High priority. Any idea who is close and maybe willing to do this?
Here is a limited Alt-Tab workaround to get the presenter screen with one single monitor, but you can't minimized the presenter screen. https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/64534/feature-request-add-show-presenter-view-in-impress/ I test these with Win10, LO 7.0. I get the presenter screen additional and can share the presentations screen in a video conference system. Fine. Unfortunatley I run now in another problem. At slides with an embedded video, the video run only at the presenter screen. At the presentation screen you see only one frame of the embedded video.
Just wanted to say this is happening on the OSX side as well. Currently using version 7.0.4.2.
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Created attachment 183438 [details] Presenter Console in windowed mode
Created attachment 183439 [details] Impress Settings Window
changing affected OSs to "All" as I assume not 100% of Linux distros offer a way to switch desktops (which is in any case a workaround, not a fix). Comment 17 shows that people on Linux also want it, and same for MacOS in Comment 31.
Daniel Lohmann committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/a15bcda0e21be04bec424172192f2416b7f52422 tdf#33495: Allow presenter console in windowed mode It will be available in 7.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Great to have it fixed! Just a note for a follow-up: Currently, the presenter console is not shown at all, even if set to start always, when the slide show is shown in windowed mode; it looks like it would make sense to have windowed presenter console alongside with windowed slide show :)
Verified fixed in: Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 6d6a2343b1d45695f3ea02818d317a022a7b259f CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Thanks Daniel!