Comment 136 for bug 185311

I'm using 8.04 amd64 with backports enabled.

openoffice from another user's account --> worked for me!
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin --> worked for me!
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -writer --> didn't work for me!
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin --anything --> opens the writer directly (don't ask me why :-) )
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin --> didn't work. same output. So...

And, if I edit the /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice script uncommenting the following lines...

# test for availability of the fast external splash
# if [ "$sd_binary" = "soffice.bin" -a -x "$sd_prog/oosplash.bin" ] ; then
# sd_binary="oosplash.bin"
# fi

... and type "openoffice" at the terminal, openoffice opens!

But, "openoffice -writer" --> bugs.