Month: December 2015

Categories
Laptop OsX

Maximize windows in OsX

The maximize button (top left – 3rd button to the right on the window) hides the top bar and dock automatically in OsX.  If you want to make a window cover the whole screen without covering the dock and top bar, use the following key combinations:

Option + (click on green button on top left) – This maximizes the window vertically, useful for some apps that dont require as much horizontal space

Shift + Option + (click on green button on top left) – This maximizes the window to cover both horizontal and vertical space

Categories
Linux Open Source Solutions

Fixing Open Office Issue – User Installation could not be completed

Encountered this issue while trying to run Open Office from a newly installed Ubuntu box:

This application could not be started.
User installation could not be completed.

To fix this issue you need to basically reset the config of LibreOffice. This can be done using the following command (Warning: This deletes all your settings and config wrt LibreOffice):

rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice

Note: This issue can also occur when the permissions of the config folder is incorrect (root instead of user), use this command to fix that issue:

chown haas -r ~/.config/libreoffice