Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Office on several machines

[Jan W. <ja...@co...>]

* steve downes <st...@ki...> [031028 07:06]:
> If I run openoffice(1.1 on debian testing) on, say, my laptop, leave
> it running & go to, say, my office desktop & start open office there,
> it starts another instance on my laptop & nothing on my desktop.
> 
> Both machines are running LTSP/XDM from my server. If I do this with
> any other software it run on the machine it is started from. This
> appears to be consistent between any 2 machines in any direction.
> 
> I appreciate this may not be seen strictly as an LTSP problem but this
> would seem to be they most likely source of relevant expertise.

It's not a bug; it's a feature ;-)

You are running as the same user on both machines, and in fact, you
are running as the same user twice on the LTSP server.  OOo and some
other programs (Mozilla-Firebird, for example), don't want two
completely different instances by the same user, probably because both
instances could be writing to the config files at the same time with
unpredictable results.

With Firebird, it asks if you want to use a different user profile
(this is a pain in our lab, and I wish I knew a way for it to behave
like OOo and just not run).

If you want OOo on both machines at the same time, be a different user
on one of them.  Or maybe you could run a different version, say
1.0.3, on one of them, but that would be yucky.

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