How to remove the "Normal, Outline, Notes, Handout, Slide Sorter" tab-bar on Impress

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It is quite easy to remove this bar as follows (tested on xubuntu 15.04). Open a terminal and make sure you are in your home directory. Then follow these steps:

1. Install dependencies, see [1]

   sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice

   sudo apt install libkrb5-dev

2. now build libreoffice, see [2]. First, checkout libreoffice from git

   git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core libreoffice

3. now configure the build

   cd libreoffice

   ./autogen.sh

4. compile (and drink lots of coffe ;))

   make

5. If the build was successful, lets remove the annoying bar

   nano sd/source/ui/framework/module/ImpressModule.cxx

   Remove the following part in method "ImpressModule::Initialize" by selecting and deleting it

   new ViewTabBarModule(
   rxController,
   FrameworkHelper::CreateResourceId(
       FrameworkHelper::msViewTabBarURL,
       FrameworkHelper::msCenterPaneURL));
   

   Press Ctrl+x and confirm with 'y'

6. Build the modified module

   make sd

7. Start Impress and be happy

   ./instdir/program/soffice --impress

Have fun,

Klaus

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/D...

[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/D...