OpenOffice2 on specified display?

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> writes:

> This is a bit esoteric, but maybe someone has an answer :-)

I don't, but ...

> I have a dual head system (two desktops, not Xinerama). I can start an
> OpenOffice application on either desktop by either setting the DISPLAY
> variable or using the "-display" option to ooffice2.
>
> BUT: Once one OpenOffice2 window is open, all subsequent windows will
> open on the same display. OpenOffice2 seems to pay no further attention
> to the DISPLAY variable or to the "-display" command line option. I've
> been through all the configurable options I can find in OpenOffice, no
> joy.

If I open OO's Presentation (ooimpress) under Dapper, reduce the
resolution, and then try to go to slideshow (e.g. with F5), only a
part of the picture is displayed - the right and bottom side is
"outside" the screen.  If I quit and restart ooimpress (after changing
the resolution) it displays correctly in slideshow mode.  This has led
me to believe that OO records the display information at startup and
stores it for further processing.  This would explain why you are not
able to display the second window on a different display, if the first
display information is the only one that matters.

> Does anyone know how I can have one OpenOffice2 window on one display
> and another window on another display?

File a bug report?  I haven't done it myself, but when I looked for
"my" problem yesterday, I didn't find it.  I have seen someone else
having the exact same problem at a conference, running OO on Ubuntu,
even though I think this is a OO bug/feature, not an Ubuntu one.

I haven't tried the OO version on Edgy (2.0.4 vs 2.0.2 on Dapper) yet,
so it might already be fixed there.  Anyone?  I assume you run Dapper
as well?

        Affi