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: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:21:32 -0700
On Oct 22, 2010, at 13:07, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 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?
Yes, sorry. I suppose I started the response at the incorrect location in your email. I was responding to why you weren't able to input dead keys as you wanted.
>> 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.
Ah, ok. That's true because the launchd DISPLAY is owned by XQuartz.app, so X11.app uses a legacy DISPLAY value.
> Secondly, what exactly is the reason I shouldn't touch
> the Apple-set DISPLAY variable?
Because you can't really know ahead of time what the socket will be. Some people hard coded DISPLAY=:0 in ~/.bashrc ... which works great when their server is :0, but not so great otherwise... furthermore, that makes X11 not start on demand.
> 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"!
What happens when you get unlucky and your display is actually ":1" ... ?
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