Repeat question: OpenOffice2 on specified display?

F.J.Zhao fuziok at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 10:05:10 UTC 2006


There's no openoffice in my system., so I take firefox for testing:

$ firefox
        (A firefox windows opened in my current display)
$ Xnest :1 -ac
        (use Xnest to open display :1)
$ firefox -display=:1
        (Another firefox windows opened in my current display, not in Xnest)
$ DISPLAY=:1 forefox
        (A dialog opened in Xnest, saying "Firefox is already running")

I guess that "display" has been processed in specific way by firefox
to make sure that only one instance of firefox is running in the
system, accroding to the test results.
Maybe same for OpenOffice.






2006/10/18, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:
> I sent this message a while ago, but received no useful reply. So I'm
> sending it again :-)
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I might direct a second OO window to open
> on a different display to the first one?
>
> And a new question: Does anybody know if the latest OO behaves any
> differently to Breezy OO in this regard?
>
> Regards, K.
>
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> Subject: OpenOffice2 on specified display?
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:20:36 +1000
>
> This is a bit esoteric, but maybe someone has an answer :-)
>
> I have a dual head system (two desktops, not Xinerama). I can start an
> OpenOffice application on either desktop by either setting the DISPLAY
> variable or using the "-display" option to ooffice2.
>
> BUT: Once one OpenOffice2 window is open, all subsequent windows will
> open on the same display. OpenOffice2 seems to pay no further attention
> to the DISPLAY variable or to the "-display" command line option. I've
> been through all the configurable options I can find in OpenOffice, no
> joy.
>
> Does anyone know how I can have one OpenOffice2 window on one display
> and another window on another display?
>
> Regards, K.
>
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