[CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line

[Jay Seven Ess]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:46, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> How does one launch an openoffice application, such as the
> spreadsheet from the command line?
>
> I tried the instructions listed in
> http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/support/applications/openoffice/
> and pages similar to it, but that causes an installation
> program to start.  I know it's already installed, I can
> launch it from the Fedora Core toolbar.

I started Oo Calc from the menu and then on the command line did..
   $ ps -aux | grep office

which returned "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/scalc"

issuing that line on the command line started the Calc spreadsheet program
for me. 

J