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arcady
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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:41 am Post subject: Possible to launch Open Office (1.9) from the command line? |
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What would the exact command be that I would type in to xterm?
I'm really looking to find this out so I can add it to the 'applications' pull down of xterm as a shortcut... :p
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gpiroux
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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On my system, the following command works from a terminal
| Code: | | /Applications/openoffice.org1.9.121/program/soffice |
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sardisson
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| gpiroux wrote: | On my system, the following command works from a terminal
| Code: | | /Applications/openoffice.org1.9.121/program/soffice |
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Also note that if you want it to launch into a particular module instead of the grey window, you can substitute the module for "soffice" (i.e., swriter for launching into Writer).
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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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I tried this and got
| Code: | /Applications/openoffice.org1.9.107/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
or check permissions of your X-Server
(See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
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What do I do now?
Thanks
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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You probably will need to do the following command first:
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set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 && export DISPLAY
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setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
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immediately before trying to invoke soffice (or variant scripts) from the command line. The other option would be to run the command from an xterm spawned from within X11.app as that will have the DISPLAY environment variable set for you automatically.
The different "set" variants depend upon your shell. For 10.0-10.2, the default shell was "csh", but with 10.3 I believe it changed to "bash". "setenv" won't work with bash, at which point you'll need to do the first variant.
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sardisson
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | The other option would be to run the command from an xterm spawned from within X11.app as that will have the DISPLAY environment variable set for you automatically. |
Ah, that explains why it works for me 
The "set" commands also look very familiar, so I'm sure they're documented somewhere...probably in the readme for 1.1.2. Yep
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