[coolphage]

So I dont know much about unix. I want to use oo for school. Is there a place to read about how it works. I have both of them downloaded and I can not seem to get them to work. It goes to a screen with three boxes and I have to restart.
Thank a bunch.
By the way the 12" powerbook rocks!!!!

[spiney]

Have a look at this forum, there is help there.

ooodocs.org

[normyzo]

Hi,

Are you using the Apple X11 or XFree86?

Also, do you have the BSD layer installed (if not, you can install it with your Mac OS X CDs).

Next, if you could do the following and report what it says.

1) Start your X11 program
2) Open a terminal
3) type "cd <path-to-openoffice>/program" (without quotes of course, and replace the <path-to-openoffice> with where its installed on your machine)
4) type "setenv DISPLAY localhost:0" (no quotes again)
5) type "./swriter"

In my case, its:

cd /ooo11install/program
setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
./swriter

And copy down the text in the terminal and post it back here.

Thanks!
Dan

[spiney]

If you start only X11 are you able to get an xterm up?