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 17:00:02 -0700
On Oct 22, 2010, at 14:32, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> Yes, sorry. I suppose I started the response at the incorrect location in your email. I was
>
> Digests are great until you actually start replying to various
> messages therein? ;)
No, I don't digest. I just read all your emails first then clicked on the wrong one to reply to and didn't re-read it ;)
>> Because you can't really know ahead of time what the socket will be. Some people hard coded
>
> I'll see that when the time comes. I sincerely hope that X11 isn't
> going to abandon the notion that :0 is the local display!
No of course not, but :0 is not the *only* local display.
> Sure. Isn't that great? :P The only start-on-demand I need is when I
> click on the X icon in the dock... (I've been spending most of my time
> exclusively in fullscreen X11 for years...)
Well, then you should be fine... you're part of that 0.1% population segment that we cater to.
>> What happens when you get unlucky and your display is actually ":1" ... ?
>
> Well, since the other day, that means I only load my resource
> database, start my nice lite window manager (ctwm), and an rclock to
> keep the server from exiting, instead of launching a more complete
> environment... Which seems perfectly appropriate, since from what I
> remember of the X11 specifications, there will not be a :1 display
> without an already existing :0 O:-)
Or a crashed :0 display...
> (but then, I think the secondary head on my system's primary X11
> server could also have been :0.1 rather than a part of :0.0 that I can
> only identify via Xinerama...)
Right. The number following the period is the screen number within that display... something that isn't much use in XQuartz...
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