Hello
I'm writing to share some strange experiences with using OO.org
(3.0.1) on OS X Server (10.5.6).
Has anyone successfully ran OO over Remote Desktop or VNC ('RD/VNC')
with OS X Server?
Here's what I've found:
- You can use RD/VNC to use OpenOffice.org on OS X (standard/client)
- You cannot use RD/VNC to use OpenOffice.org on OS X Server
If you have a physical monitor connected to the OS X Server machine,
OO.org works fine.
When you launch OO form the command line to capture standard out/error
with /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
the following is output (truncated, but a very long repeating series
of):
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetFillColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetStrokeColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetFillColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetStrokeColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetFillColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetStrokeColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetFillColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetStrokeColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetFillColor: invalid context
soffice[75506] <Error>: CGContextSetStrokeColor: invalid context
The OS X Server machine is running at 1024x768.
I have tried reinstalling OS X Server from scratch with a fresh copy
of OO.org, with the same result.
Interestingly, or perhaps obviously, OO.org will still function as
expected if you call it using the API to do document conversion etc,
although it has intermittent font issues, presumably connected with
the windowing problems.
Does anyone know of a way around this or have any suggestions? I
tried running NeoOffice and that will work on OS X Server over RD/VNC,
but that does not support some a couple of the command line options
that we use with OO.
The welcome to OO window does not display, but if you use the keyboard
to input a return character and thus open a blank document, you get
some strange results. I've uploaded some screen shots to illustrate:
http://node3.nirvanix.com/Recall%20Media/recall.media/tmp/Picture1.png
http://node3.nirvanix.com/Recall%20Media/recall.media/tmp/Picture2.png
http://node3.nirvanix.com/Recall%20Media/recall.media/tmp/Picture3.png
(You will see two instances of OO.org running - one is in headless
mode for conversion. The same thing happens with only one instance
running.)
Cheers
Tom
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