Re: Mac OS X

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 04:18:15 EDT

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    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

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