zotero 7 - plugin for LibreOffice completely broken

gnomaner

Report ID: 1746483052

OS: Linux (Nobara 40; spin of Fedora 40)
LibreOffice: 1:24.2.5.2-2.fc40 (via repository; yum-extender)
Zotero 7 (via flatpak)

PROBLEM
- libre (with installed plugin) and zotero are running
- clicking on any button in libre associated with zotero closes zotero automatically; no message, no nothing, it just closes

TIMELINE
two weeks ago (2024-08-11) :
- everything works fine

next day (2024-08-11):
- update to Zotero 7
- couldn't install the plugin for Libre via GUI
- tried every step in troubleshooting
- nothing worked
- tried to reinstall some used programs/dependencies; didn't work at all and broke my complete system with this lol
- switched to windows for the time being

today (2024-08-29):
- reinstalled everything including fresh install of OS; same problem nothing changed


thanks in advance!


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dstillman

That's a problem with the third-party Flatpak you're using:

https://github.com/flathub/org.zotero.Zotero/issues/165

It works fine with the official tarball we distribute.

pizarroia

I can confirm the same issue with Flatpak Zotero on Wayland, on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

But the official version (the tarball) integrates with LibreOffice (flatpak in my case) without any issues.

no5xmega

I also tried Zotero with Libre Office integration (both as flatpak) on Aurora (Linux Ublue project) which is an atomic Fedora spin with native and superb flatpak support.
Zotero instantly crashed when using it on Wayland after pressing the add reference button.
However, I did not experience this issue when I tried them on X11. But yeah, it would be great for Zotero if they would come up with an official flatpak.