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When NeoOffice is launched, it occasionally opens the NeoOffice website in Safari (or the default browser), asking for donations or listing available patches.

This was confusing my wife and kids when they wanted to write a text and Safari opened instead. Hence I have looked for a way to suppress this behavior and found the following solution:

Create the following file (e.g. using touch from Terminal):
/Applications/NeoOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/.noshowdonationpage


[kirkmc adds: I haven't tested this.]
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This is officially supported
Authored by: doctype on May 29, '07 08:11:42AM
This measure is officially supported, look there: Disabling Patch-Checking and Donation Messages. Additional Comments on the Wiki page:
If you disable showing of the donations message, we do encourage you to donate to help keep NeoOffice development going.

If you disable patch-checking, we strongly urge you to subscribe to the NeoJUpdate mailing list, closely watch the NeoOffice Release Notes page in this wiki, or use another method to keep aware of the latest patches.


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Suppress NeoOffice automatic update checking
Authored by: thwaite on May 29, '07 09:51:06AM
Coincidentally, NeoOffice has an announcement on today's macintouch.com site of their nice new patch:
NeoOffice 2.1 Patch 5 updates the latest release of this Mac OS X-native version of the OpenOffice.org office suite. According to the release announcement, this patch brings performance improvements:
After countless hours of performance analysis work, we recently had a breakthrough that enabled us to identify specific performance bottlenecks in NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code and fix those bottlenecks by replacing the OpenOffice.org code with code that is optimized specifically for Mac OS X. As a result of our fixes, image scaling and drawing speed has been increased and memory usage has been reduced. While users may not notice much change in performance when using text-based documents, users should see image-intensive activities such as running a slide show with transitions or scrolling through large documents perform several times faster than before.


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Suppress NeoOffice automatic update checking
Authored by: morbium on May 29, '07 02:23:06PM

I just did it and it worked fine
You need to activate a root psw in the netinfo-manager
if you have'nt done that yet before you open the terminal

The full command in the terminal looks like this:

sudo touch /Applications/NeoOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/.noshowdonationpage

Press enter

type your root psw

Press enter again

Done!


I just did it and it worked fine :)



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Re: Suppress NeoOffice automatic update checking
Authored by: Uncle Asad on May 29, '07 04:31:29PM

It's not necessary to activate root (and is dangerous to do so); you just need an administrative user that's listed in the sudoers file (the first user created on every Mac by default meets these criteria).

On another note, please do read the warnings on the page cited by doctype above before performing this modification.



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sudo
Authored by: doctype on May 31, '07 08:27:51AM

You don't need the root password, you need the password of the user executing sudo (your account password in most cases) & your account must have the right to manage your computer (account settings).

Seems to be in your case that your user password and root password are the same (which isn't the brightest idea) :-)



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