Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 on XQuartz
Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 on XQuartz
- Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 on XQuartz
- From: René J.V. Bertin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:07:20 +0200
Hello Jeremy,
On 22 October 2010 20:09, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>> on my MBP. Given that OpenOffice has its own font database, I consider
>> that fonts should display remotely if they display locally... or am I
>> missing something?
>
> Chances are you are missing something, and it is very understandable why. This is one area where things are "different" between Mac and other UNIXs.
Thanks for the history lesson ... there are things one tends to forget
after working for 22 years with Unixes and X11 ... ;)
I'm afraid I do not understand, however, what the various kinds of
modifier keys have to do with the way fonts render or not? Were you
replying to my other question?
> If you want Option-E to send the dead-acute, then you want Option to be Mode_switch instead of Alt, so make sure the check box is off.
I've been xmodmapping the left Option to Alt_L and the right to
Mode_switch probably since moving to 10.4 .To my shame I had to notice
my .xmodmaprc file had a comment on Mode_switch being needed for
accented characters ... but I can assure that the left Option key did
just as well in about 90% of the time.
> You shouldn't be using the :1.0 display on Leopard or later. You should use the launchd DISPLAY socket that is set for you (make sure you don't set DISPLAY in ~/.bashrc or similar).
Two things. Firstly, when you run X11.app with XQuartz.app already
running, it sets DISPLAY to :1, or at least that's what my .xinitrc
file tells me. Secondly, what exactly is the reason I shouldn't touch
the Apple-set DISPLAY variable? I understand that it allows a
system-wide and presumably user-specific definition of this variable
which is accessible to all apps. Is there another advantage (like
faster connections, though IIRC ":0.0" is *supposed* to use shared
memory)? If not, I'll prefer the infinitely more elegant ":0.0", which
is also what a good part of my scripts know to recognise as "home"!
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