MAC O/S X 10.5.4 I get an ERROR when opening Open Office

[Roger-109]

Hello all,    I just installed the Open Office on my brand new iMac.  When I
attempt to initialize the Open Office Program, I get this prompt:  bash-3.2$
I then do not see anything elase opening.  I then close the prompt, and then
I click on the OpenOffice again, then it takes about 90 seconds to
initialize.    Is this normal ?   Please help,  and thanks in advance.




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[Guy Voets-2]

2008/7/15 Roger <papas1@...>:

> Hello all,    I just installed the Open Office on my brand new iMac.  When
> I
> attempt to initialize the Open Office Program, I get this prompt:
>  bash-3.2$
> I then do not see anything elase opening.  I then close the prompt, and
> then
> I click on the OpenOffice again, then it takes about 90 seconds to
> initialize.    Is this normal ?   Please help,  and thanks in advance.
>

Hello Roger,

The prompt is in the xterm window of the X11 utility that OpenOffice.org
needs to run on your Mac. The X11 or XQuartz that comes with Leopard (OSX
10.5.x, your operating system) is different from the X11 that runs on Tiger
(the previous Mac OS 10.4.x) and it isn't yet entirely bugsfree. The
developers are busy with it, and you get updates with Apple's automagic
Software Update. There are more regular updates available at
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org always triggers X11 to open, hence that window, that you can
close if it annoys you (just click on the red button - there are more
sophisticated ways of stopping X11 from opening that xterm window in the
first place, but I lost the reference...

I use the 'experimental' version of OOo that works without X11 - you can
download it for trial, not for serious production work, since it's still
being tested to weed out the bugs - see the entry page of
www.openofice.orgfor the beta-2, there's a version for your Mac Intel
too.

BTW, the normal place to discuss these things would be the users list (
users@...). You can subscribe to that list and post your
questions there.

HTH
--
Guy
using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
-- please reply only to users@... --
Dodoes can't afford to have headaches

[Roger-109]

Thanks

"Guy Voets" <nimantuis@...> wrote in message
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> 2008/7/15 Roger <papas1@...>:
>
>> Hello all,    I just installed the Open Office on my brand new iMac.
>> When
>> I
>> attempt to initialize the Open Office Program, I get this prompt:
>>  bash-3.2$
>> I then do not see anything elase opening.  I then close the prompt, and
>> then
>> I click on the OpenOffice again, then it takes about 90 seconds to
>> initialize.    Is this normal ?   Please help,  and thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Hello Roger,
>
> The prompt is in the xterm window of the X11 utility that OpenOffice.org
> needs to run on your Mac. The X11 or XQuartz that comes with Leopard (OSX
> 10.5.x, your operating system) is different from the X11 that runs on
> Tiger
> (the previous Mac OS 10.4.x) and it isn't yet entirely bugsfree. The
> developers are busy with it, and you get updates with Apple's automagic
> Software Update. There are more regular updates available at
> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
> that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org
>
> OpenOffice.org always triggers X11 to open, hence that window, that you
> can
> close if it annoys you (just click on the red button - there are more
> sophisticated ways of stopping X11 from opening that xterm window in the
> first place, but I lost the reference...
>
> I use the 'experimental' version of OOo that works without X11 - you can
> download it for trial, not for serious production work, since it's still
> being tested to weed out the bugs - see the entry page of
> www.openofice.orgfor the beta-2, there's a version for your Mac Intel
> too.
>
> BTW, the normal place to discuss these things would be the users list (
> users@...). You can subscribe to that list and post your
> questions there.
>
> HTH
> --
> Guy
> using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
> and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
> -- please reply only to users@... --
> Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
>

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[Larry Gusaas-4]

Guy Voets, 2008/07/21 10:46 AM:

> 2008/7/15 Roger <papas1@...>:
>
>  
>> Hello all,    I just installed the Open Office on my brand new iMac.  When
>> I
>> attempt to initialize the Open Office Program, I get this prompt:
>>  bash-3.2$
>> I then do not see anything elase opening.  I then close the prompt, and
>> then
>> I click on the OpenOffice again, then it takes about 90 seconds to
>> initialize.    Is this normal ?   Please help,  and thanks in advance.
>>
>>    
>
> Hello Roger,
>
> The prompt is in the xterm window of the X11 utility that OpenOffice.org
> needs to run on your Mac. The X11 or XQuartz that comes with Leopard (OSX
> 10.5.x, your operating system) is different from the X11 that runs on Tiger
> (the previous Mac OS 10.4.x) and it isn't yet entirely bugsfree. The
> developers are busy with it, and you get updates with Apple's automagic
> Software Update. There are more regular updates available at
> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
> that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org
>  

Don't you mean <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases> ?

Also, if ti still doesn't work , try Shaun McDonald's hack. It worked
for me.
<http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html>

--
Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Canada

Website: http://larry-gusaas.com


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[Guy Voets-2]

2008/7/23 Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas@...>:

> Guy Voets, 2008/07/21 10:46 AM:<snip>
>>
>> There are more regular updates available at
>> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
>> that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org
>>
>>
>
> Don't you mean <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases> ?
>
> Also, if ti still doesn't work , try Shaun McDonald's hack. It worked for
> me.
> <
> http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html
> >
>

Sorry, wrong link, I didn't verify what I copied...
I gave up on the X11 altogether and am now happy with the beta-2 aqua

--
Guy

[Roger-109]

I went to this link  http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases
I then downloaded the latest X11   X11 2.3.0 - 2008.07.19
Now things are worse than before!
I try to open my Open Office,  I get the   "bash-3.2$"    prompt   and
nothing else!   Why is the Open Office now NOT opening?   Please help !

Thanks

I am frustrated



"Guy Voets" <nimantuis@...> wrote in message
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> 2008/7/23 Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas@...>:
>
>> Guy Voets, 2008/07/21 10:46 AM:<snip>
>>>
>>> There are more regular updates available at
>>> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
>>> that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Don't you mean <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases> ?
>>
>> Also, if ti still doesn't work , try Shaun McDonald's hack. It worked for
>> me.
>> <
>> http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html
>> >
>>
>
> Sorry, wrong link, I didn't verify what I copied...
> I gave up on the X11 altogether and am now happy with the beta-2 aqua
>
> --
> Guy
>

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[Larry Gusaas-4]

Roger, 2008/07/24 10:11 AM:

> I went to this link  http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases
> I then downloaded the latest X11   X11 2.3.0 - 2008.07.19
> Now things are worse than before!
> I try to open my Open Office,  I get the   "bash-3.2$"    prompt   and
> nothing else!   Why is the Open Office now NOT opening?   Please help !
>
> Thanks
>
> I am frustrated
>  

Go to Shaun McDonald's blog and follow the instructions there. It worked
for me to get OO.o 2.4.1 working on Leopard, although I normally use
OO.o 3 Beta.
<http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html>

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> "Guy Voets" <nimantuis@...> wrote in message
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>  
>> 2008/7/23 Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas@...>:
>>
>>    
>>> Guy Voets, 2008/07/21 10:46 AM:<snip>
>>>      
>>>> There are more regular updates available at
>>>> http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
>>>> that may (or may not) work better with Leopard and OpenOffice.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Don't you mean <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/Releases> ?
>>>
>>> Also, if ti still doesn't work , try Shaun McDonald's hack. It worked for
>>> me.
>>> <
>>> http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html
>>>      
>> Sorry, wrong link, I didn't verify what I copied...
>> I gave up on the X11 altogether and am now happy with the beta-2 aqua
>>
>> --
>> Guy
>>
>>    

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