From: Mark (mdpfbgd@flash.net)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 12:45:17 EDT
Frank is
THE KING.
Thank you.
On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 03:18 AM, F J Franklin wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mark wrote:
>> Is there any way to "call" abiword directly from within the xclient?
>> I.e. from a terminal or command line? Switching back and forth between
>> OS X proper and the xclient stinks and the system is slow running x
>> rootless.
>
> There is, but you'll need to create a wrapper script. If you look in
> XAbiWord's Aqua preferences panel you'll see the various environment
> variables that need to be set. You should probably set
> BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/dillo (or whatever) as well.
>
> If you have a fink or GNU-Darwin install lying around, the
> /sw/bin/abiword
> is probably just such a script. The XAbiWord bundle is designed to be
> relocatable and the XAbiWord wrapper is basically a Cocoa implementation
> of the script...
>
> The real executable then is /path/XAbiWord.app/Contents/MacOS/AbiWord_d
> which is a pure GTK application
>
> So, yes, it's doable. If you need help, I can probably dig something out
> later today.
>
> Ciao, Frank
>
> Francis James Franklin
> F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
>
> "No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and
> why
> would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
> --- Elle
> Woods
>
>
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