OpenOffice and XDarwin

[MP]

Thanks to some advice online, I discovered that the installer hides
windows needing attention. (The first install I tried, I ended up
letting it run all night with nothing happening because a window was
hid.) I now have OpenOffice installed, but still can't get it to run.

Something has been said about XDarwin? Do I still need it if I'm running
Apple's X11? If so, what does it do? I'm not a Unix guru. I don't want
to install something that'll cause trouble later.

How do I get OpenOffice to actually run? The installer said something
about a script, but I can't find it.

--MP

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[Michael Kilgore]

In article <blackhole-1F99E...@netnews.attbi.com>,
MP <blac...@foxinternet.net.invalid> wrote:

> Something has been said about XDarwin? Do I still need it if I'm running
> Apple's X11? If so, what does it do? I'm not a Unix guru. I don't want
> to install something that'll cause trouble later.
>
> How do I get OpenOffice to actually run? The installer said something
> about a script, but I can't find it.

There are several useful posts in comp.sys.mac.system on these topics.
See, among a number of others, the threads "X11 -- Dock or Desktop" and
"Apple X11 & OpenOffice.org".
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Michael Kilgore

[Christopher J. White]

>>>>> "mp" == MP <blac...@foxinternet.net.invalid> writes:

mp> Something has been said about XDarwin? Do I still need it if I'm running
mp> Apple's X11? If so, what does it do? I'm not a Unix guru. I don't want
mp> to install something that'll cause trouble later.

mp> How do I get OpenOffice to actually run? The installer said something
mp> about a script, but I can't find it.

Try this:

1) With Apple's X11 running, select Applications -> Customize. This
should bring up a dialog for X11 Application Menu.

2) Click Add Item - this should give you a new blank line hightlighted.

3) Double click in the Name column, type "Open Office"

4) Double click in the Command column,
type "/Applications/OpenOffce.org1.0.1/program/soffice"
(Verify the path is the same for you).

5) Click Done

Then you can start it from the X11 Applications Menu. This works for
me, and I don't have XDarwin installed.

...cj