mikeymikec
August 29th, 2018, 02:59 PM
I migrated from Win7 to Linux a few months ago. One thing I make liberal use of in my business is having a load of invoice templates stored in my invoices folder, and in normal use I'd just double-click on a template to start writing a new document based on that template. In Windows I'd go into Windows Explorer, into my invoices folder, double-click on a template, off I go.
If however I wanted to edit a template on Windows, I'd right-click on the template and click on 'Open' (as opposed to the double-click action is 'New' which would open a new document based on that template), which would allow me to make changes to the template itself.
One thing I'm finding a bit fiddly on Lubuntu is how to go about editing a template file (and firing up a quick VM of Kubuntu suggests a similar problem, don't know about Ubuntu though), because right-clicking on the file in a pcmanfm window just gets me options along the lines of 'which program do I want to open this file with'. I wonder whether creating a custom command line option is the way I need to go (available through 'open with...'), but I'm a bit nervous about that option as I don't know how to undo a mistake I'll inevitably make if I try to figure it out myself (I guess a way of testing prior to making the custom entry would be to run the command line I'm testing through terminal to see whether I get the desired result? But that's not all that needs to be done there).
On L/Kubuntu the only way I can see to edit a template is to start by firing up LibreOffice, then File > Templates > Open Template.
I'm using Lubuntu 18.04 LTS with LibreOffice 5.4, and the test VM was Kubuntu 18.04 I think with LibreOffice 6.0.
If however I wanted to edit a template on Windows, I'd right-click on the template and click on 'Open' (as opposed to the double-click action is 'New' which would open a new document based on that template), which would allow me to make changes to the template itself.
One thing I'm finding a bit fiddly on Lubuntu is how to go about editing a template file (and firing up a quick VM of Kubuntu suggests a similar problem, don't know about Ubuntu though), because right-clicking on the file in a pcmanfm window just gets me options along the lines of 'which program do I want to open this file with'. I wonder whether creating a custom command line option is the way I need to go (available through 'open with...'), but I'm a bit nervous about that option as I don't know how to undo a mistake I'll inevitably make if I try to figure it out myself (I guess a way of testing prior to making the custom entry would be to run the command line I'm testing through terminal to see whether I get the desired result? But that's not all that needs to be done there).
On L/Kubuntu the only way I can see to edit a template is to start by firing up LibreOffice, then File > Templates > Open Template.
I'm using Lubuntu 18.04 LTS with LibreOffice 5.4, and the test VM was Kubuntu 18.04 I think with LibreOffice 6.0.