[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office Slideshow + LTSP - request to comment on bug

2009-09-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
Hi all, I'm hoping to get anyone interested in getting some momentum behind the Open Office Presentation Slideshow / LTSP bug to visit and comment on the bug reports (below). There seems to be no movement by the OOo team and I think we might just need to get more voices/votes in for them to t

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office Presentation LTSP bug during Slide Show - a plea

2009-07-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
I am sending this to the LTSP community as a plea to voice your experiences with OOo Presentation Slide Show under LTSP thin clients. Everything you need to know about this issue are in the following 2 bug reports. I strongly encourage everyone to make accounts on both bugtrackers and post your

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office in ltsp

2006-07-09 Thread Peter Billson
Steve, I just ran into this same problem. It appears to occur if some workstations are running the kernel from LTSP 4.2 (2.6). The blank error problem occurs on the workstations running the old (LTSP 4.1/2.4.x) kernel while the workstations running the new (LTSP 4.2/2.6.x) kernel work fine.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office in ltsp

2006-07-09 Thread steve downes
Sorry, I thought I had replied but it's not here. I think it may be a memory problem & as I am not, for different reasons, not running a 2.6 kernel on the server at present I swop doesn't seem to be working. I think I'll sort out the 2.6 kernel & start again. Thanks for your help. Steve On Wed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office in ltsp

2006-07-05 Thread Eilert
Steve Downes schrieb: > Just setup ltsp on my new server. At present it only has 1 > terminal. This works OK except when I open open office writer it opens > a window, no blank file & when I try & load a file OO crashes after > displaying a blank error message. I've since installed XFS & a bigger >

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office in ltsp

2006-07-05 Thread Steve Downes
Just setup ltsp on my new server. At present it only has 1 terminal. This works OK except when I open open office writer it opens a window, no blank file & when I try & load a file OO crashes after displaying a blank error message. I've since installed XFS & a bigger swop file to no effect. OO lo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office slow menus problem insight

2004-02-11 Thread Todd Shoemaker
Jim- Glad to see you found the workaround... it was a real problem for me, too, but I knew there had to be a workable solution. I've been fairly swamped the last few weeks and I haven't been able to pursue this problem to figure out why that directory is empty. As I said in the linked post, the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office slow menus problem insight

2004-02-11 Thread Jim
Problem solved! I guess I should have done more searching through the archives ... I downloaded ltsp_x_core-3.0.4 and used the method described by Todd Shoemaker, archived here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&m=107412424911231&w=2 And I agree with Kevin Valentine, this should prob

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office slow menus problem insight

2004-02-11 Thread Gary Jaffe
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:25:45 -0500 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem: > Some (but not all) OpenOffice menus draw VERY slowly, slowing down the > > whole OO app in the process. Do you need all the functionality of OpenOffice? If you just need a word processor that can read and write M

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office slow menus problem insight

2004-02-11 Thread Jim
I'm currently looking into moving my entire (antiquated, win98-based) office over to linux using ltsp. I have set up a test network in my house so I can get to know how the system works and how to administer it, while getting a basic idea of performance at the same time. One thing that has been

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office .org does not start

2003-12-16 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 02:20, Matthew L. McCarty wrote: > I have a LTSP install with Ximian Gnome under RH8 as the Desktop. All works > well except for OOo 1.1. With some users OOo will start fine and yet with > others it will take up to 10 minutes or never. Although this is more of OO problem th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office .org does not start

2003-12-16 Thread Dieter Kroemer
Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2003 21:50 schrieb Matthew L. McCarty: > I have a LTSP install with Ximian Gnome under RH8 as the Desktop. > All works well except for OOo 1.1. With some users OOo will start > fine and yet with others it will take up to 10 minutes or never. Try following for the user wh

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office .org does not start

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew L. McCarty
I have a LTSP install with Ximian Gnome under RH8 as the Desktop. All works well except for OOo 1.1. With some users OOo will start fine and yet with others it will take up to 10 minutes or never. When I look at the process I will see perhaps 10 or more processes running for that user of soffi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-29 Thread jam
I think OpenOffice, upon startup is looking for other windows that belong to OpenOffice. Somehow, theres an attribute in the window structure that identifies some information about the program that owns it. It sees that there are already windows belonging to OOo, so rather than starting another

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread steve downes
on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:17:45AM -0600, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 07:59]: > > Jan Wilson said: > > > With Firebird, it asks if you want to use a different user profile > > > (this is a pain in our lab, and I wish I knew a way for it to behave > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Wilson
* steve downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 07:55]: > Yes, Never thought of that. It is the way I need work if possible. I > have a machine in the office, one in the workshop, & a diskless laptop > in the lounge. > > I've just logged in using my wifes log in & it works correctly. > > Do you know

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Wilson
* Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 07:59]: > Jan Wilson said: > > With Firebird, it asks if you want to use a different user profile > > (this is a pain in our lab, and I wish I knew a way for it to behave > > like OOo and just not run). > You can use a script for that: Instead

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Jan Wilson said: > With Firebird, it asks if you want to use a different user profile > (this is a pain in our lab, and I wish I knew a way for it to behave > like OOo and just not run). You can use a script for that: Instead of calling mozilla, call /usr/local/bin/mozilla-starter. That script woul

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread steve downes
Yes, Never thought of that. It is the way I need work if possible. I have a machine in the office, one in the workshop, & a diskless laptop in the lounge. I've just logged in using my wifes log in & it works correctly. Do you know of a workround or any ideas to try? Mant thanks Steve on T

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Wilson
* steve downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 07:06]: > If I run openoffice(1.1 on debian testing) on, say, my laptop, leave > it running & go to, say, my office desktop & start open office there, > it starts another instance on my laptop & nothing on my desktop. > > Both machines are running LTSP/XD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread Peter Billson
Steve, By any chance are you logged in as the same user on both machines? Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting steve downes wrote: > > If I run openoffice(1.1 on debian testing) on, say, my laptop, leave > it running & go

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

2003-10-28 Thread steve downes
If I run openoffice(1.1 on debian testing) on, say, my laptop, leave it running & go to, say, my office desktop & start open office there, it starts another instance on my laptop & nothing on my desktop. Both machines are running LTSP/XDM from my server. If I do this with any other software it run

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office Save Problem

2002-10-31 Thread Robert Maynord
LTSP Folks: Our school network has several machines on a LTSP network (Mandrake 8.2), as well as stand-alone machines. All works well, except for one thing - In LTSP, Open Office saves documents to user folders, and then gives an "unrecoverable error" message. Other programs such as KWord an

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office and shared memory

2002-10-08 Thread Dennis Katsonis
I'm looking at using LTSP for a small company. We are quite happy with using Open Office as the office suite. However, in a test run using LTSP with 2 computer, I noticed the following output when Open Office Writer was started on both machines. root 6203 0.0 0.1 1760 488 ?S

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on new install

2002-07-22 Thread John McCreesh
The convention is to use /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0. Remember to do the install as root and use the install script rather than setup. John On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:54:18 +0100 "Stephen Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am installing LTSP on a brand new server today for our school.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on new install

2002-07-22 Thread jam
Stephen, Just do a normal network install of open office. You certainly don't need to put it in /opt/ltsp/i386. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Stephen Berry wrote: > Hi there, > > I am installing LTSP on a brand new server today for our school. I want to > run open of

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on new install

2002-07-22 Thread Stephen Berry
Hi there, I am installing LTSP on a brand new server today for our school. I want to run open office but could some one tell me where to install it? Should it be put in the /opt/ltsp/i386...area? Thanks, Stephen --- This sf.net emai

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] open office

2002-05-12 Thread Charles Marcus
Sorry, forgot to change the subject line... > From: "Michel Donais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 02:17:00 -0400 > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] open office > > I just installed open office 1.0 on my LTSP server. > &

[Ltsp-discuss] open office

2002-05-10 Thread Michel Donais
I just installed open office 1.0 on my LTSP server. When I start the application on a terminal client, the application start on the server console. What's the trick to get it on the client console ? Michel ___ Have big pipes? Sourc