Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 30872
Can only open apps on one head of multi-headed display
Last modified: 2005-03-24 14:07:49 UTC
One of the modes that X-free (actually I'm using Fedora core 2 which uses x-org, but basically the same thing) allows with multi-headed displays is "Individual Desktops" mode. There is really not exact equivalent in windows world, where really you only have "spanning" and "cloning" as options. Bottom line is that the way it works it the other displays are completely different X sessions, with there own panels etc. So on my system with dual headed ATI graphics card my first screen is DISPLAY=0.0 and my second screen is DISPLAY=0.1. OOo only allows its application to show up on one display at a time (the first one launched). Thus if I open a document on the first screen and then try to open a document on the second screen OOo automatically opens the second document on the first screen. This kind of defeats the purpose.
Have you tried this with a newer version of OOo? If so: Does this problem occurs there, too? If not: Could you try a newer version of OOo (1.1.3 or 1.9.60) if this issue also occurs there? If this is not the case, could you close this issue, please? You could reopen it every time needed ... ;)
mci -> pl: Hi pl, please have a look at this. Do you know this problem? Thanks...
works without problems in 1.1 and 680 builds; admittedly i haven't seen a 1.0 in years.
Hi skiani, - we didn't "hear" anything from you since you submitted this issue... - pl tried this ==> it works in a newer version ==> I'm going to close this issue now.
closing...
Sorry for slow reponse, I don't check this stuff often. Just tried in 2.0beta and still doesn't work. Try this simple test (you don't need a multihead display), start OOo on your main display (0.0), then launch a VNC server on display 1 as the same user (this represents the second head), client that vnc server, now open an OOo document. It will open on your main (0.0) window not on the second head or VNC session (1.0). I have tried this with most UNIX apps and they don't have this problem, so unique to OOo.
Ah. Sorry, i didn't read your description correctly the first time, i thought you meant you cannot display even the first document on the second head. Yes, the problem exists and is known, OOo cannot currently connect to two displays at the same time (most applications can't). But in OOo's case OOo can also not run twice for the same user (for reason that both processes would write to the same user settings/configuration and possibly documents at the same time). So you end up with only one OOo process that can only connect to one display and also is not multihead capable. Multihead for one office is at least a planned feature (alas for target later). Making OOo start in two processes (to be able to connect to two displays) is not planned at all currently since concurrent access of documents and user settings is not currently possible with more or less a whole redesign. see also issue 12719, issue 41864 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 41864 ***
closing duplicate