Bug 33495 - Minimizing the presenter screen while presentation is active (UI)
Summary: Minimizing the presenter screen while presentation is active (UI)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Presentation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 42987 62414 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-01-25 12:20 UTC by Jed Hamilton
Modified: 2014-04-17 20:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Jed Hamilton 2011-01-25 12:20:02 UTC 
In a dual screen setup, while a presentation is playing, there is no way on the presenter screen to minimize the presenter screen, in order to do other things in windows.  (Work on another document, play solitaire, check a web page, etc)
I describe the issue here:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-issue-on-Windows-XP-tp2295698p2295698.html
Comment 1 Noel Power 2011-01-26 04:29:23 UTC 
thorsten, any idea
Comment 2 Jed Hamilton 2011-02-16 11:05:23 UTC 
I was able to work around this by removing the "presenter-screen" directory from the "extensions" directory, located here:
C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\share\extensions
Comment 3 Samuel Mehrbrodt 2013-02-14 09:02:04 UTC 
In LibreOffice 4.0 this is no longer an extension, but a core feature. Thus, it cannot be disabled anymore.
I think it would be nice to have a way to move the Presenter Screen from full-screen to a window.
Comment 4 Samuel Mehrbrodt 2013-02-14 09:05:00 UTC 
*** Bug 42987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jed Hamilton 2013-02-14 13:25:07 UTC 
In LibreOffice 4.0, I can delete "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4.0\program\PresenterScreen.uno.dll", and it will behave as I have been needing it to.  This works just the same as deleting the extensions folder in LibreOffice 3.
Comment 6 Samuel Mehrbrodt 2013-04-25 14:57:10 UTC 
*** Bug 62414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 bfoman 2013-07-26 11:50:50 UTC 
It still can't be minimized but option to disable the bundled Presenter Console is a LibreOffice 4.1 feature - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1#Impress
Comment 8 Thorsten Behrens 2013-09-12 16:14:58 UTC 
Apologies for not having gotten around fixing this bug yet; unfortunately in future I'll have even less time at my disposal for this, so I'm freeing up ownership for other volunteers to take over.
Comment 9 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-01-19 14:26:32 UTC 
That is a MS-Windows only bug because under Linux (and OS-X ?) you can switch to another desktop (for example ctrl+alt+right arrow on Unity/Ubuntu) and you don't need to minimize the PresenterConsole to be able to work in another opened window.

Best regard. JBF
Comment 10 Samuel Mehrbrodt 2014-04-17 20:23:15 UTC 
I've created an issue for this on Freedomsponsors: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/484/minimizing-the-presenter-screen-while-presentation-is-active-ui

Please consider sponsoring this. Whoever fixes it, gets some money.

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