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    Openoffice.org why a virtual drive on my desktop?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Mar 7, 2007.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    I instaled openoffice and now on my desktop I have what looks like a cd drive that says openoffice.org. And in the running programs area in the "dock menu" I think has X11 running all the time. In the Macintosh HD it has an option to eject openoffice.org but tells me it is being used and will not eject it?

    Please help someone who doesn't understand macs or openoffice yet. :confused:
     
    passive101, Mar 7, 2007
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    oh no I right clicked on x11 and closed it and ejected the openoffice.org. Now I don't know how to open openoffice again!
     
    passive101, Mar 7, 2007
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    1000100001 Notebook Geek

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    Last I heard they were working on a Cocoa version... don't know when that's gonna happen.
     
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    I'm not sure what you mean.
     
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    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    First: this virtual drive is probably a disk image. This is the preferred way of installing apps in OS X. You mount the disk image (much like an ISO file in windows) and then copy the app to Applications folder.
    Second: OpenOffice is an X11 application, that is, it doesn't use the native graphics library of Macs, but rather X11 which is a UNIX standard. There is a port of OpenOffice called NeoOffice which is native though. To use OO you need X11 installed (it is on the DVD, it isn't installed by default).
     
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    Yah, what wooky said. You didn't actually install OO, you just mounted the image and ran it from that.
     
    hollownail, Mar 8, 2007
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    ok I understand now. I just have to figure out how to use spread sheets with this now.
     
    passive101, Mar 8, 2007
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