Bug 34622 - feature request: program that forces save and exit all instances of office
Summary: feature request: program that forces save and exit all instances of office
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: AutoSave-AutoRecovery-Backup
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Reported: 2011-02-23 07:41 UTC by sasha.libreoffice
Modified: 2023-08-09 13:17 UTC (History)
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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)
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.