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[Plasma] WPS Office doesn't work under Plasma
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I'm not sure what's wrong here as it works fine in GNOME and Budgie. The terminal isn't very helpful either as it only throws out a segmentation fault:

[I] ╭─vistaus@solus /run/media/vistaus/MicroSD/Apps  ‹system› 
╰─$ wps
/usr/bin/wps: line 38: 16397 Segmentation fault      ${gInstallPath}/office6/${gApp} ${gOptExt} ${gOpt} "$@"
[I] ╭─vistaus@solus /run/media/vistaus/MicroSD/Apps  ‹system› 
╰─$

Or is there some way to debug WPS? Anyway: if you need more info, let me know.

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Unknown Object (User) created this task.Feb 2 2018, 12:56 PM

@Vistaus, the problem seems to be (at least from what I'm finding on other forums) WPS Office is a GTK-only app. Works fine in any GTK-based desktop, but chokes on anything Qt.

Try running this from a terminal and see if it starts:

WPS_NO_KDE_NATIVE_DIALOG=1 wps -style gtk

The first part tells WPS not to even try to use Plasma's dialogs, to just use it's own built-ins. The second launches wps with a flag telling it to only use GTK. This is reported to work on Neon, Kaos and some others.

Unknown Object (User) added a comment.EditedFeb 2 2018, 4:36 PM

@folcred I didn't know there was such a thing as a GTK-only app. I thought all apps worked across all DE's no matter what toolkit. But your solution works! Thank you! :)

Unknown Object (User) closed this task as Resolved.Feb 2 2018, 4:36 PM