Problem with openoffice 2.3.1 on freebsd...

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:08:38AM -0500, Kris Moore wrote:
>I noticed that a patch was made to fix it:
>
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2007-December/003464.html

I've tried this patch and it had no effect - OOo still reports the same
glib initialisation errors and hangs.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:07:56PM -0500, Kris Moore wrote:
>I found that by setting OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome" before running any of the 
>office programs does allow them to function, without crashing.

Looking at the source, OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP can take the values 'none',
'cde', 'kde' or 'gnome'.  Setting it to 'gnome' makes OOo work -
except that it won't exit.  When you exit, the window closes but the
soffice-bin process hangs around exchanging messages with X.  I suspect
it is waiting for the (non-existent in my case) gnome WM to tell it to
die.  All the other values fail in glib initialisation.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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