XQuartz breaks OpenOffice on OSX

People tell me that Apple's X11 is not as good as it could be and that I really should install the Xquartz community version from xquartz.macosforge.org. So I did, but I found that doing so broke OpenOffice. As I've noted before running OpenOffice under X11 gives you current version, rather than 2.2 based code on which NeoOffice is currently based, although of course NeoOffice is a great product.

The underlying problem is the OpenOffice launcher which fails to call stuff correctly.

You can get OpenOffice to launch by using the following command (line may wrap):

/Applications/OpenOffice.org\ 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice

Should launch OK.

Mac OSX X11 application - turning off the 'sure you want to quite notice'

I run Open Office on my Macbook Pro, which because it doesn't have its own windowing, requires X11. When you quit X11 you get an alert asking "are you sure you want to quit X11' and giving the dire warning that all X11 applications will also be stopped.

If you want to turn this warning off you do (from the command line)

defaults write org.x.x11 no_quit_alert true

If you want to go back run it again - just swap true with false.