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Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:59:48 +0000

[...] Linux Web Hosting, Java , Jsp, J2Ee, Struts, Servlets And Jboss Web Hosting Users Blog wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerptA “presenter view” for OpenOffice presentations on Linux November 22nd, 2007 Earlier this week I was at @media Ajax, and it was great — more in an upcoming post. First, though, a quick bit of scripting I did. You see, it’s become apparent to me that I need a “presenter view” when I’m presenting; I have my laptop running dualscreen, so that the view I get on the laptop screen is not the view that appears on the projector. I need this, because I’m not Derek Featherstone; I can’t just see the sl [...]

By: sil

sil — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:33:02 +0000

No’: you need to enable assistive technology support :) See http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/docs.html for details on how (it’s just a tickbox).

By: No'

No' — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:55:21 +0000

downloaded it, installed dogtail via apt-get, but the evince-presenter-view.py script crashes and tells me:*

“Dogtail requires that Assistive Technology support be enabled. Aborting…”

Do we need to gring an activation key to use it? ;)

By: sil

sil — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:38:11 +0000

pscoop: I know about flickrlilli but I can never remember how to spell “lilli” :)

By: pscoop

pscoop — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:31:58 +0000

Uber hacker Elliot (townx.org) wrote Flickrlilli.org.uk to do CC searches on flickr (before they implemented it) but is a little more flexible and automatically pulls the metadata you need to attribute CC stuff correctly.

By: Ian Bicking

Ian Bicking — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:26:03 +0000

Well, of course, you should just reimplement S5. I really don’t know why someone hasn’t done that already; it’s not a particularly difficult piece of code. And whatever is going on with its weird speed things, I’m sure they could be resolved.

I haven’t rewritten it either, but damn… well, I’m really close to rewriting it. Why won’t someone do this for me already?

By: liquidat

liquidat — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:15:12 +0000

Actually, OpenOffice already supports multiple monitors. You can already send the presentation to one screen and view something else on another one. See (closed) bug report #12719. However, the real presentation view with a clock and further notes is not yet implemented. The bug which tracks the development is #18486. There you can also find a link to first screenshots of the new feature.