The above bug report is reported against Ubuntu 18.04.1
However the same observation - purge the package libreoffice-gtk3 ensures libreoffice starts successfully - no "document recovery" issues are observed on first start.
Obviously the styling of libreoffice is windows 95 like. ho-hum.
Note - https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ libreoffice/ +bug/1813755
The above bug report is reported against Ubuntu 18.04.1
However the same observation - purge the package libreoffice-gtk3 ensures libreoffice starts successfully - no "document recovery" issues are observed on first start.
Obviously the styling of libreoffice is windows 95 like. ho-hum.