Trying to avoid oosplash

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Thu Nov 16 08:25:49 UTC 2017


On 11/15/2017 09:01 PM, Jens Tröger wrote:
> and always do I see two processes:
> 
>    /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/oosplash
>    /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
> 
> I thought that --nologo avoids the splash?  How can I avoid that splash,
> and what exactly does it do?

Despite the name, oosplash (source entry point at 
desktop/unx/source/start.c) does more than just show the splash screen. 
One other main job of it is to restart soffice.bin as needed (during 
first start; after a crash; in response to some "restart LO now" dialogs).


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