On Friday 14 March 2014, David Bell wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2014 17:01:53 dep wrote:
> 
> > hmmm. am running same setup and libreoffice works uneventfully. might you
> > start it from a terminal and see if it throws any errors or such?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> In terminal as user I get the same result, with no error messages. As SUDO up 
> it comes and opens documents happily?
> 
> Is there a cure?
> 
> 

Try to uninstall kgtk-qt3-trinity (and maybe gtk-qt-engine-trinity); see okd mail from Slávek:

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On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Slávek Banko wrote:
> Problems with crashes GTK programs I have seen only if I had installed
> kgtk-qt3-trinity (and related), which replacing dialog boxes. But with
> gtk-qt-engine-trinity, which only changes the appearance of gui widgets,
> it does not fall.
>
> Note: These problems apparently not related to the update 3.5.13.1.
>
> Slavek

Question: when will get kgtk-qt3-trinity not longer installed by sefault - too much trouble with gtk applications. I wasn't able to use 
 * lazarus-ide
 * dropbox
 * calibre
without using using sudo before I uninstalled the culprit.

Gerhard