topic Re: OpenOffice headless startup in Alfresco Archive

OpenOffice headless startup

simon — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:58:40 GMT

Hey there,This is an OpenOffice related question but some of you should or will have the same problem so it can be useful to solve it here…We start OpenOffice with Alfresco (with the start_oo.sh script) on RHEL 4:/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice -headless -nologo -invisible "-accept=socket,hos

Re: OpenOffice headless startup

steve — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:16:11 GMT

Hi Simon,

Unfortunately, Openoffice requires an X display - even in headless mode!
Xvfb is the method that Openoffice suggests to use for linux machines that don't have an X display… so that is what we recommend.

Steve

Re: OpenOffice headless startup

simon — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:38:25 GMT

OK, thanks Steve! I was hoping to see some other solution with less overhead but I'll have to convince OpenOffice…

Update: Installed Xvfb and followed the display setting as described by hikenboots and it works. Not perfect but it works.

Re: OpenOffice headless startup

zipho — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:36:03 GMT

Its been months trying to get openoffice to run on alfesco for document conversions, and the is no success. I have visited every resource on the internet (openoffice website, Xvfb sites, Alfresco Wiki & Forums), but nothing much is said about this feature, but I think it is a core feature for this ECM. Please can somebody, who has done it, help me on this subject…………We love the product, just would appreciate if this feature would work…

Thank you guys in advance..

Re: OpenOffice headless startup

steve — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:45:21 GMT

Hi,

Could you post some more ionformation about your problems please?

Thanks,

Steve

Re: OpenOffice headless startup

sagar — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:39:28 GMT

Just start the openoffice like

C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program>soffice -headless -nologo -invisible -accept=socket,host
=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager

or through bootstrap-context.xml.