Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
No... I didn't know about the cups option for openoffice. I find it mentioned, now that you mention it, at http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#howto . I now see that the option's existence can also be extrapolated from the code in ./files/Makefile.knobs. I had no idea that "knob" meant a ma

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/s

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Duane Whitty
Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried t

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin I18N: Operating s

Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried to set the display. I ge