Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 19 March 2010 19:14:21 Mick wrote: I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( Try: oocalc -no-oosplash :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 10:18:59 Steve Dommett wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 19:14:21 Mick wrote: I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( Try: oocalc -no-oosplash :-) Yes! That fixed it. :-) Thank you very much. I saw this option but never thought that it would make

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 16:04:04 Mick wrote: Do you know why it behaves differently with -no- oosplash, when the binary installation does not seem to be bothered either way? It seems the binary package doesn't install the optional oosplash.bin program. The code responsible for the differing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting ... which Xresources is xterm reading?  I have this in my ~/.Xresources: aterm*loginShell:true aterm*saveLines:32767 aterm*transparent:true aterm*transpscrollbar:true aterm*shading:40

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 22:30:16 Robert Bridge wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting ... which Xresources is xterm reading? I have this in my ~/.Xresources: aterm*loginShell:true aterm*saveLines:32767 aterm*transparent:true

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 March 2010 00:34:44 Dan Wallis wrote: On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 22:57:41 you wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:15:17 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:29:00 Dan Wallis wrote: On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On a x86 system, oocalc launches, I use the file and when I close it shred removes it. On the amd64 system, the file is shredded as soon as it is opened. This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Wallis
On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick: while pgrep ooffice /dev/null; do sleep 1; done Although

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 07:40:04 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? It doesn't return anything on the terminal I launch it from, but decrypts the file in an xterm and then closes it (the xterm). So the gpg part works

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing oocalc (does it decide to exit, or is it sent some signal). If your suspecting xterm to be the culprit (i.e., yr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:15:17 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: ok. I didn't realize that oocalc actually executed in your first attempt. Out of ideas then. FWIW - a few guesses: I'd execute oocalc under strace, and try to find what is killing oocalc (does it decide to exit, or is it sent some

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Dan Wallis
On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have run into a problem which I cannot explain.  I am trying to run this script in a amd64 installation: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg oocalc \ Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-16 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
What does xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg;echo $?' tell you? I'm thinking that gpg fails, so oocalc never launches (because you conditioned its execution with '', and the script continues to shred the file. My amd64 succeeds executing this (s/gpg/echo-to-tmpfile/). I

[gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-15 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have run into a problem which I cannot explain. I am trying to run this script in a amd64 installation: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg oocalc \ Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v DATA/data.ods' On a x86 system, oocalc launches, I use the file and when