Pierre-André Duchemin wrote:
Hello,
A few months back I ordered Openoffice 2.2 CDrom.Instead of burning CDs
myself for distributing to friends, I ordered 3 CDs as some sort of
contribution to your work. Due to my busy schedule, I haven't installed it
yet, as I am using something else in the meantime. Openoffice 2.2 said it
required installing first the XII utility that came with my Mac 10.4.9.
However, I have since upgraded to OS 10.4.10, and you to Openoffice 2.2.1.
Is there any chance that these two combined could waive the need for the XII
utility? I think I read somewhere that the time would come when XII would
not be necessary since it would be integrated, or something of that nature.
Mind you, that would be nice since I am no wizz at this. I tried to find the
answer to this on the web, but I lack the time to go through so much chat
before I strike the right answer, should there be one there for me.
A) It's X11, not XII.
B) As you may know, MacOS X is based on Unix. X11 is the part of Unix
that does (small-w) windows; but MacOS X has its own Mac-flavored
windows ("Aqua"), which it uses instead of X11. OpenOffice.org is
working on a version just for the Mac that will use Aqua, but it isn't
ready, yet. In the meantime, since OOo also runs on Unix, it has an X11
version, and that is what you have to use lon MacOS X at present. Apple
includes X11 on the MacOS X CD-ROM, but does not automatically put it on
your hard disk; you have to add it yourself.
So you still need to install X11.
As an alternative, there is a program called NeoOffice/J, which you can
download instead. It is based on OOo, but uses Aqua. However, it is not
as up-to-date as OOo is, because whenever there is a new version of OOo,
a new version of NeoOffice/J has to be built based on it.
--
John W. Kennedy
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