OnlyOffice AppImage/portable....currently at 7.3.0.184

[mikewalsh]

Just a quick mention of this slightly unusual modern 'take' on the office suite, as mentioned here by watchdog:-

viewtopic.php?f=96&t=2434

Website here:-

https://www.onlyoffice.com

AppImage available from here:-

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/appimage- ... s/releases

Also has cloud platform integration, and is fully compatible with M$ Office formats. OMG!Ubuntu! article here:-

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/onl ... ected-docs

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You can find my 'portable' build here:- https://mega.nz/folder/yL4WwT7Y#N2GAzfOuwFW5VlMnMjOVEw

Usual routine:-

• Download
• Unzip
• Move anywhere you want
• Click to enter, then click 'LAUNCH' to fire it up

Included scripts will add/remove a Menu entry, if required. Enjoy.

Mike.

[gyrog]

@mikewalsh
Yes, works like a bought one, thanks.

Do you know if it's capable of going directly to one of its facilities?
i.e. directly open a spread-sheet, without going via it's facility choice screen.

I must try running it with a file as a parameter, see if that does it.

[mikewalsh]

New version now available - v6.2.0

Download from the GitHub link in post #1.

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

@gyrog :-

TBH, I haven't really used it, apart from a brief "look-see" when I first downloaded it. Let us know if you have success with what you're trying to do, please.

Mike.

[gyrog]

@mikewalsh, I will, I will.
I actually intended to boot into a 64bit Puppy and try it as soon as I had finished on the forum, but.....
But, I will.

And I might even give the new version a go.

[gyrog]

Do you know if it's capable of going directly to one of its facilities?
i.e. directly open a spread-sheet, without going via it's facility choice screen.

I must try running it with a file as a parameter, see if that does it.

Answering my own question,
yes, when run from a console with a ".pps" file as a parameter,
it opened to it's "Presentation" facility with the ".pps" file open, but it didn't open as a slideshow,
oh well, probably a configuration thing.

So it should work as expected if a document or spread-sheet were used as a parameter.

[mikewalsh]

Right, kiddiwinks.

New release for y'all - v6.3.1 has just been released in the last 48 hours, although the AppImage download is still sitting at v6.2.0. So; I've d/l'ed the .deb, extracted it followed by re-building into an AppImage via the use of Fred's scripts, and then building a new format of 'portable' I trialled earlier on today.

AppImages are a great way of using apps, but they do have the nasty habit of leaving config files/directories behind them wherever they're run. So; to make these truly portable, I've combined the best of the AppImage AND my standard 'portables'.

The portable directory now contains just two things; the newly-built AppImage and a 'LAUNCH' script. At first run, because this is in fact an Electron app, you can use regular Chromium browser '--switches'.....with the result that a 3rd item, a 'PROFILE' directory, will be created beside the first two. Second & subsequent runs, OnlyOffice will then use this self-contained config profile. No more 'stray' config directories sitting around all over the place..!

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You can of course share a common profile between multiple Puppies on the same machine, but you then need to start all over again with another 'common' profile when moving to another one. Like this, you can run OnlyOffice from a flash drive.....anywhere you want.

You can find this new portable at the link in post #1, above.

As with all my portable builds; d/l; unzip; move anywhere you like - preferably outside the 'save'. Click to enter, click 'LAUNCH' to run. This takes a few seconds before things start to happen; it's a BIG office suite, and has to unpack itself into /tmp before firing-up.

The beauty of this layout is that once you have the portable directory, to keep up-to-date simply visit the website in post #1, d/l the newest AppImage, unzip & re-name it to match the existing one (you can rename these to anything you like, as it's the 'act' of clicking on the outer directory that transfers the executable action to the "AppRun" script within. The actual 'label' is in fact irrelevant..!) Then just swap old for new.

See what y'all think. (Oh, & BTW; this new release now has a much needed 'dark' theme....)

Enjoy.

Mike.

[fredx181]

Hi Mike, just to report that OnlyOffice64 appimage doesn't work for me:

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# '/root/Downloads/OnlyOffice-portable64/OnlyOffice64'
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: linuxfb, minimal, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Fred

[mikewalsh]

@fredx181 :-

Hi, Fred.

Mm. Same problem here, actually.

I built a 'standard' portable and again, it couldn't see its own QT stuff. So; since the QT libs aren't in a discrete directory - just inside the main one - I've used an LD_LIBRARY_PATH clause to tell it to look there.

Bingo. It's now working as a standard 'portable'..!

I've gotta pop out for a wee while, but I'll re-build that to an AppImage later when I get back.

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The 'portable's' launcher looks like this (I've re-named the big, "desktopeditors" directory to 'OnlyOffice') :-

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Launcher for 'portable' OnlyOffice suite
#
HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
#
mkdir "$HERE/PROFILE" 2> /dev/null
#
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HERE/:$HERE/OnlyOffice${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} 
#
"$HERE/OnlyOffice/DesktopEditors" --user-data-dir=$HERE/PROFILE "$@"

Should re-build fine to an AppImage now.

Mike.

[mikewalsh]

@fredx181 :-

Hi again, Fred.

Okay. Now then; download again from the above link you used last time.

When extracted, you've got two options, really. You can either pull the AppImage out from the 'OnlyOffice-portable64' directory & just use it as a 'standard' AppImage, in which case it creates a permanent 'onlyoffice' directory in /root/.config. Or, if you leave it 'in situ', and use the 'LAUNCH' script to fire it up, it creates the profile directory at /config/onlyoffice alongside the other items, and sym-links 'onlyoffice' out to /root/.config/onlyoffice at run-time, immediately prior to startup.

At shutdown, the /root/.config/onlyoffice sym-link is deleted again. In this 'mode', it can be run from a flash-drive or other portable media, and shared between multiple machines if required. The 'ReadMe' explains the difference.

Let me know if it works for you, please..!

Mike.

[fredx181]

Works well now Mike!

[rcrsn51]

Has anyone figured out how to select a different default font?

[jrb]

Has anyone figured out how to select a different default font?

I haven't found any settings for this but I do have a way.

1)Open a new document
2)Select your preferred font
3)Save to a "Document template" (.dotx)
4)Set the run action to open this in OnlyOffice
5)Start OnlyOffice by clicking on your .dotx

Here's how I setup my /usr/local/bin/defaultwordprocessor"

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if [[ -f "$@" ]]
  then
    exec /mnt/home/0_common64/0_hardrive_apps64/DesktopEditors-x86_64.AppImage "$@"
  else 
    exec /mnt/home/0_common64/0_hardrive_apps64/DesktopEditors-x86_64.AppImage /root/00DOTX1.dotx
fi

A .dotx will not allow you to save over it. You have to save as a new file.

[rcrsn51]

@jrb Thanks. I also found some files in /opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/converter/empty that appear to be the templates for new documents.

[greengeek]

Hi Mike - the first post does not show your own link that you have posted a few posts further down. Could that be added to the first post??