Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a new presentation 2. Slide Show -> Impress Remote, it works :D 3. Click inside the left slide view 4. Try to open Impress Remote again, it won't open 5. Click outside the slide view, and the dialog appears again In my case, my defauld slide view option is "Normal".
Still reproducible using Version: 4.3.0.1 Build ID: 9ed0c4329cf13f882dab0ee8b9ecd7b05e4aafbb
Andrzej Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d61468314bbfd2a79929b48e62d7e5ed354ab79b fdo#63378 Enable Impress Remote Dialog menu item for all view shells. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
(Currently awaiting 4.2/4.3 backporting, but is in master.)
Andrzej Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d9429698b9784634768e831248f1e081ed3d6114&h=libreoffice-4-2 fdo#63378 Enable Impress Remote Dialog menu item for all view shells. It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.6. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Andrzej Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=62afc8fcaa527daa1f762ed7f27bcf71be3640c6&h=libreoffice-4-3 fdo#63378 Enable Impress Remote Dialog menu item for all view shells. It will be available in LibreOffice 4.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.