Re: OOo startup - resolution

[Rob Bochan <debian-user@lists.debian.org>]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 02:05 pm, Rob Bochan wrote:
> ... basically an OOo kiosk sort of
> thing. It's called via an .xinitrc file in the user's home directory. It
> works pretty well except for one thing: OOo opens at 800x600, but the
> screen (a laptop lcd) runs at 1024x768. 
<snip>

I've ended up having to run a window manager for this project, per a few 
suggestions, I'm starting with ion, ion3 to be precise. It seems to work well 
enough. If I can figure out how to disable the menu system, all should be 
well. If not, I'll do some more experimenting.

If I may interject for a moment here... I find it a shame (even ridiculous 
perhaps?) that OOo is window manager dependent for a process like this, 
regardless of the platform. One would think that an app like this, which you 
might expect to be used in many a kiosk type situation (schools, offices,  
and such) to be more 'kiosk friendly'. When first investigating this, I found 
that this issue has been known for quite some time now, according to the Ooo 
forums. Since this project is running on Debian, I'd hoped that the community 
here might have some ideas, which it did (thanks btw). Hopefully will be 
addressed in the next major release of OOo. Unfortunately, that will be too 
late for this project. Perhaps the saddest aspect of this is that I was able 
to get the desired effect using Crossover Office + MS Office, but the 
licensing fees are way beyond the budget for this project.

Once again, thanks for the suggestions.

-- 

...Rob
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