On Wed October 26 2005 20:46, Severin Greimel wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 03:13, James Graham wrote:
> > We currently have a terminal services server with 10 thin clients that
> > all use the same username when they connect.
> >
> > Open Office will do odd things, some times one user will open a document,
> > and it will open on another random session.
>
> Hi James,
>
> I guess you're using a Linux terminal server. For some reason
> OpenOffice.org cannot be shared by the same user on different X displays. I
> think there was a bug report about it, but unfortunately I can't remember
> its number.
>
> The display of the first session that opens OpenOffice.org will be the
> display that all consecutive session will be using for OpenOOffice.org,
> until the original instance of OpenOffice.org has quit. The last time I ran
> across this issue I was using version 1.1.x, but obviously version 2 has
> not changed the described behavior.
>
> I'm afraid you won't get around using a different user for each session
> that is supposed to have its own instance of OpenOffice.org.
If this user indeed is using linux thin clients, then there is a way to use
the same user account and specify an argument to say "use this config
directory" . However I cannot find that particular argument, even thought it
was mentioned on one of the OOo lists in the last 2 months.
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