
Read Yahoo! Mail from Any Email Client #56
Chapter 8, Desktop Programs
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HACK
Now let’s get back to the “sort of” part of the equation. First you start
ooffice -quickstart manually, or have it launched automatically when you
start your window manager or desktop
[Hack #72]. Then you start up your
OpenOffice.org productivity applications, do a little work, and then close
the applications.
As soon as you close the last OpenOffice.org productivity application, the
background quickstart process automatically exits, too. Unlike the methods
employed by oooqs, quickstart interprets the closing of the last application as
an indication that you’re done with OpenOffice.org for the day. So, the next
time you open the word processor, it’s back to “trip to Starbucks” time
again. (Well, not necessarily. If you ran the OpenOffice.org application
recently, much of it might still be in memory, and it will start quickly.)
Respawn Trick to the Rescue
Here’s where the respawn method I describe later in “Don’t Let Elvis Leave
the Building”
[Hack #73] comes in really handy. Log in as root, start up your
favorite editor, and create a file called /usr/local/bin/oostay. Type the follow-
ing text into the file:
#!/bin/bash
# Restart ooffice -quickstart every time it exits
instances=`ps ax | grep -e -quickstart | grep -v grep | wc -l`
if [ $instances == 0 ]; then
while true; do ooffice -quickstart ; done
else
exit 1
fi
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