Office: Alternatives since Collabora introduced nagware with possibility to track users

[ernolf]

@bb77

I have tried all possible combinatons like…

"home_mode_enable"
"home_mode_enable=false"
"home_mode_enable=true"
"extra_params=--o:home_mode.enable=true"
"extra_params=--o:home_mode.enable=false"

etc…

…and I could not get the nag screen to appear, even without passing the variable at all. So maybe they finally removed it for good…?!?

But it should be

home_mode.enable instead of home_mode_enable

and if you host it as a standalone server, you have to set this from false to true in your /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml:

	<home_mode>
		<enable desc="Enable more configuration options for home users" type="bool" default="false">true</enable>
	</home_mode>

and I can confirm that it suppresses the nag screen. As soon as I set the value back to false and restart the coolwsd, the nag screen reapears the next time I call it up.

Much and good luck
ernolf

[bb77]

@ernolf

But it should be

home_mode.enable instead of home_mode_enable

I use the standalone Docker container: collabora/code

I have passed the environment variable in all possible ways, and I still have no idea if it does anything.

Last time I tried, I started the container as follows:

docker run -t -d -p 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 --name=collabora \
-e "aliasgroup1=https://cloud.mydomain.tld:443,https://cloud\\.mydomain\\.tld:443" \
-e "username=admin" -e "password=super_secret_password" \
-e "lang=de_CH" -e "dictionaries=de_CH de_DE en_GB en_US" \
-e "extra_params=--o:home_mode.enable=true" \
--restart always collabora/code

Anyways, my point was that no matter how I start the container, I don’t get the nag screen, even if I don’t pass the extr_parms environment variable.

Ah and the coolwsd.xml in the container always says the following:

  <home_mode>
        <enable desc="Enable more configuration options for home users" type="bool" default="false">false</enable>
    </home_mode>