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------- Additional comments from nathani...@openoffice.org Thu Oct 8 12:45:51
+0000 2009 -------
Yes, true: it does seem that one would need separate homedirs for using separate
displays, with openoffice as it currently is.
There are, apparently, 'good' ways of writing X11 programs so that there aren't
such restrictions, but I well appreciate that fixing this properly would take
lots of work for situation that the vast majority of users won't ever meet
(multiple displays). But there is a (relatively) simple change that would make
the current behaviour much less confusing.
It's true that mozilla programs (at least, firefox) also can't cope with more
than one instance per homedir; they seem to require all windows of that instance
to be on one display. If firefox is run from one display (e.g. 0) when already
running on another (e.g. 5), then instead of opening the requested window on
display 5, invisible to the user on display 0, it will pop up a warning on
display 0 to say that it's "already running .. not responding .. etc.". It's
not a very helpful message, as it makes it sound as though one needs to kill all
firefoxes or reboot, not just that it's already open elsewhere. Mozilla things
are indeed silly and annoying in several ways that seem to have come from
ms-style systems ...
KDE's konqueror browser, Adobe's acroread and many others all happily cope with
multiple displays on one homedir, by using the display name to distinguish
between instances.
OOo has different behaviour depending on whether one tries it on two displays on
the same host, or two on different hosts (with shared homedir). In the case of
different hosts, e.g. displays hosta:0 and hostb:0 , an attempt at opening a
second instance of OOo results in a helpful warning message:
"Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing
your personal settings or your personal settings are locked.
.... make sure user 'myname' closes OpenOfice.org on host 'hosta'.
Do you really want to continue?"
It is only when the two displays are on the same host that the confusing
behaviour occurs, where the requested window silently opens on another display
that the user can't see.
So, as a way to avoid confusing behaviour, but without making OOo able to cope
with multiple displays, would it be possible to identify the situation where a
running instance and a new request are on different displays on the same host,
and to give a warning message that if the user continues then the new window
will be on another display?
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