Tools>Options>LibreOffice>View>Graphics Output configured differently for different user

[userBrian]

Hi,

I’ve run into a couple issues, one that apparently is known and a second that I don’t find mentioned elsewhere. I’ll start with the second.

LibreOffice 7.0.5.2 (x64)
Windows 10, HP Zbook

The short story is that I created a 2nd user on my machine and the Tools>Options>LibreOffice>View>Graphics Output settings were configured differently. I know I installed LibreOffice on the 1st account; I don’t recall if that was before or after creating the 2nd account. However, I ran the install program>repair in the 1st account and again in the 2nd account, and the settings were different. In the 1st account, Use hardware acceleration was unchecked, and the 3 others were all checked (Use anti-aliasing, Use Skia, Force Skia). In the 2nd, Use hardware acceleration, Use anti-aliasing, Use Skia were checked, Force Skia was unchecked.

The longer story is my finding this because of the 1st issue I ran into, which is that Impress slides presenting full-screen won’t update with the settings the 2nd user had. None of the machine’s users ventured into any of these settings and it was a bear to figure out why presenting was working for one user but not another. I’ve seen a closed question indicating that disabling hardware acceleration fixes the problem, which is how the 1st user was configured. It’d be nice if the configuration for additional users worked right.

[anon73440385]

Hello,

you seem to mix up 2 things.

[1] Software Installation

Software generally (i.e. without any special measures) installs once “per system” into a system directory, which in Windows 10 is %ProgramFiles% (i.e matching to C:\Program Files on almost all standard installation; %ProgramFiles%\LibreOffice for LibreOffice installations). That’s also how LibreOffice works using standard installation procedures. Re-installing / Repair action on that installation does not affect [2], regardless of the (permitted) user performing this action.

[2] User Settings of the Software (User Profile)

User settings for a software generally is done per user (which on Windows 10 is in %appdata%, just type that string into Windows File Explorer’s address bar). For LibreOffice the path is %appdata%\LibreOffice\4. This way, each user can have his/her own settings based on own preferences. In case of LibreOffice this part of the user configuration is being called “LibreOffice User Profile”.

And to be absolutely clear: This is intended behavior and fundamental to multi-user system design.

Solution

And to make the story short: Adapt the settings in Tools -> Options of user 2 (while logged in as user 2 and running LibreOffice) to match the settings of user 1, to have the same behavior for both users.

Hope that helps.