On Jul 20, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Robert Cruikshank wrote:

>
>
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Robert Cruikshank wrote:
>>>>
>>> Happy to report that this worked.  I installed xquartz X11 v2.3.0  
>>> over the top of Apples standard X11 and success.  One issue though  
>>> seems to be that Open Office script now hangs. I will reinstall  
>>> openoffice.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much all.
>>> Regards
>>> Rob
>>
>>
>> If you're talking about the standard openoffice.org app, that won't  
>> work.  Its installation procedure is just to drag it from a disk  
>> image, and so it doesn't do anything special on the system to  
>> detect stuff.
>>
>> The issue appears to me (I had the same problem) to be that the  
>> unofficial X11 update changes how X11 starts--and the openoffice  
>> folks probably only target the official X11 for Leopard.
> So I took the easy way out and installed the latest version 3 beta 2  
> OOo  which is a native Mac application I think.  At least it works.

Yeah, I did that too.  The issues with the X11 OOo can be worked  
around, but I wasn't in the mood.

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