When installing LO on Linux operating systems, I get the menu options to execute ever application within the suite separately. In OS X, I do not. Now a feature in 4.2.0+, it shows a list of documents I’ve created in the suite. I want none of this. All I want to do is execute Writer outside the suite like I do in Linux. How is this possible?
I have scrapped my original answer in favour of a short HOWTO for the bash script method mentioned by Alex:
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Open a text editor.
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Edit the new file to include:
#!/bin/bash/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --writer -
Save the file to the desktop as “Writer.command” (e.g., for the Writer component).
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Ensure this file is executable (
$ chmod +x Writer.commandin terminal). -
Copy this file and rename it as required per component, editing the
--writerparameter as necessary to--calc,--impress,--draw,--base, or--math. -
Launch the required component by double-clicking on the respective script.
Note: This works under MacOS 10.6.8 with LO v4.2. Please comment if it works (or not) under more recent versions of MacOS / LO.
Following your commands perfectly, a terminal window appears with the following message:
Desktop/Writer.command ; exit;
-bash: /Users/robert/Desktop/Writer.command: cannot execute binary file
logout
[Process completed]
…and nothing happens. I triple checked the commands, didn’t miss anything. the path and filenames are correct including the executable bit on the script file.
Make sure there is no blank line between the first and second line in the script. The formatting above includes a blank line between the two lines if cut/paste.
No blank line exists. Still, I can’t get it to work. Honestly, I’m not going to worry about it that much, it’s not a do-or-die request, but I would definitely love to see this as an option in a future version (install LO as single office concept or individual items so only one or two can be installed).
Short answer : you can’t, all of the modules are contained within the app bundle, that is how it works on OSX. On Linux, those icons you see in the desktop menu (and draggable to your desktop or launchbard) are shortcuts to swriter, scalc, simpress bash commands which in turn reference the soffice binary with the options --writer, --calc, --impress, --base, etc. On OSX, you could always try creating a bahs shell launcher referencing the corresponding command in the app bundle that you could then drag to your Dock, but I haven’t tried that.