[cw-discuss] installation questions - desktop reconfiguration on local machine

[Jeremy White]

Hi Jerry,

I have to confess that I am as puzzled by this as you are.

As far as I know, if you are doing something like

  ssh -X <remote-machine>

then nothing that happens after that should impact your
local machine at all.

Can you explain more as to how you are connecting from
one machine to the other?

Also, I wonder if you've somehow gotten tripped up,
and you do have a copy of CrossOver on the local machine?
(Likely places to check are /opt/cxoffice and
~/cxoffice).

One possibilty I can imagine is that if you installed
it to a shared network drive, you may have thought
you were launching it on the remote machine, when
in fact, you were launching it locally.

I hope some of that helps.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Jerry L Bash wrote:
> 
> I have recently downloaded and installed the demo version of crossover
> office.  I have been able to configure it and install Lotus Notes and
> the MS Office 2003 Suite.  I am able to use Lotus Notes and MS office
> applications fine.  Very minimal configuration requilred - all went
> well, and I was pleased with the product.
> 
> I do have a couple of questions / issues, however, and if anyone is able
> to help me out with them, I'd greatly appreciate it.  The product is
> very promising in performing as avertised, and I'd like to be able to
> continue using it.
> 
> Some background:  I have installed crossover office onto a machine
> running fedora core 4.  This is a remote machine, located in a server
> room; that is, it is a server that I am accessing from another machine
> in my office.  This machine (the local one, without the installation of
> crossover office) is running debian sid, using ssh for access, and using
> Window Maker as a window manager.
> 
> This first question / issue surfaced when I opened a msword or
> powerpoint document by double clicking on the document using konqueror
> on the host machine.  Until that time, I'd been using the command line
> to start the applications, and nothing on my local machine was affected,
> which is what I expected (and wanted).   When I opened the msoffice file
> by double clicking on it in konqueror, I noticed that the Window Maker
> menus, background, icons, and desktop in general *on my local machine*
> had been altered.  This truly surprised me.  I was not looking for or
> desiring that behavior, and was even surprised that it was possible.  I
> would like to be able to keep my local machine unaffected by the
> crossover installation, and retain the desktop appearance and menus that
> I had setup previously for Window Maker.  If that means that I need to
> start the applications from a command line, that is not a problem.  
> 
> What is it about the integration with konqueror *on the remote machine*
> that caused the desktop *on my local machine* to be altered?  It may be
> that I need to restrict permissions on my local machine to not allow an
> application to alter the menus.  If that is the solution, it would allow
> me to run crossover office in the manner that I like, and not affect
> your product at all.  I do want to restore behavior, so I'll have a
> chance to learn a little about Window Maker in the process.  If you have
> any suggestions on restoring, I'd appreciate hearing them.
> 
> As I said,the produce looks very promising, and any help with these
> issues would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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