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By Chuck Ben on May. 10, 2008

Here's a fix for you - http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-comman...

Open the file OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt in "Script Editor". (You will need to control+click the application icon and choose "Show Package Contents".)

Then replace the code block "on openSoffice(aFile)"...."end openSoffice" with the following:

on openSoffice(aFile)

if (atLeastOSXVersion(10, 5, 0)) then

-- if we have leopard, we don't need to manually start the X server first

set theCmd to "sh " & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & "soffice")) & " "

do shell script theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()

else

set theDisplay to startXServer()

if (theDisplay is equal to "error") then

return

end if

set theEnv to "DISPLAY=" & theDisplay & " ; export DISPLAY; "

set theCmd to "sh " & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & "soffice")) & " "

do shell script theEnv & theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()

-- logEvent("open CMD: " & theEnv & theCmd & aFile)

end if

end openSoffice

By Chuck Ben on May. 10, 2008

on openSoffice(aFile)

if (atLeastOSXVersion(10, 5, 0)) then

-- if we have leopard, we don't need to manually start the X server first

set theCmd to "sh " & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & "soffice")) & " "

do shell script theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()

else

set theDisplay to startXServer()

if (theDisplay is equal to "error") then

return

end if

set theEnv to "DISPLAY=" & theDisplay & " ; export DISPLAY; "

set theCmd to "sh " & (quoted form of (POSIX path of getOOProgramPath() & "soffice")) & " "

do shell script theEnv & theCmd & aFile & shellTerminator()

-- logEvent("open CMD: " & theEnv & theCmd & aFile)

end if

end openSoffice

By Robert Poor on Jun. 16, 2009

Even better: download the new Aqua version of OpenOffice for OS X from openoffice.org -- it doesn't require x-windows at all.

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