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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Feb 12 03:18:40 +0000 2009 ------- Here is another email from the same person although I have not yet tested what he has posted. Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Steffan A. Cline <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The fact this is happening appears to be a bug in the build and I have > > reported it as so. I hope to get an answer from the developer who is > > responsible for the Mac build. For some reason, it is bound to the GUI which > > should not even be launched when the -headless option is used. I am not sure > > why they don't just use a separate binary to alleviate the issue. > > Well, it's a bug in the code. Using a separate binary wouldn't help, I > think; it's the Info.plist of the app which controls this behavior. You > could put LSBackgroundOnly in the Info.plist, then use > TransformProcessType() internally in soffice to raise the "presence" of > the app after parsing the command-line parameters, but they don't appear > to do that. My guess is that whoever did the Mac port didn't think very > hard about -headless, or possibly didn't understand this about Mac apps. You can get rid of the Dock icon, though. 1. mkdir -p /usr/local/apps/BackgroundOpenOffice.app (or put this anywhere you have write permission) 2. /usr/X11/bin/lndir /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app /usr/local/apps/BackgroundOpenOffice.app 3. cd /usr/local/apps/BackgroundOpenOffice.app/Contents 4. mv Info.plist linkedInfo.plist 5. cp linkedInfo.plist Info.plist 6. chmod +w Info.plist 7. plutil -convert xml1 Info.plist 8. defaults write /usr/local/apps/BackgroundOpenOffice/Contents/Info LSUIElement -bool TRUE Now set up your LaunchAgent to use /usr/local/apps/BackgroundOpenOffice/Contents/MacOS/soffice instead of /Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice Enjoy! Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
