I’ve to restart OO after plugging in the external monitor to get the multihead option inside the preferences menu of OO Impress – this should work on-the-fly. such an important feature shouldn’t be an extension but instead become a feature shipped by default.only ONE upcoming slide is available on the presenter screen I’d like to get some of the last few slides as well as some MORE upcoming slides – this should be at least configurable (and I couldn’t find such a configuration setting so far).I can’t edit notes and slides on the fly while running the presentation (for fixing typos, adding additional notes and content,…).What I don’t like at the current implementation of the presentation mode (besides the fact that it’s a bit unstable of course): I’ve tested it on Linux too (using the installation files from as well): works like on Windows. To activate the dualhead feature you just have to set “Monitor 2” as your main presentation screen inside the presentation preferences. Therefor I gave it a try with OO version 2.3.233 from and the according presenter_screen_Win32Intel.oxt extension. The extension doesn’t work with the current stable version (2.4) and it crashes when trying to install it using the current beta release (3.0.0-beta). The presenter screen feature is implemented as an OO extension. Thanks to pointers by Stefan Weigel and Rene Engelhard I could figure out the current and upcoming support of dualhead presentation mode in OO. You can find several bugreports/wishlists in the regarding the dualhead feature as well. It just provides the possibility to send your presentation to one specific monitor or span the presentation on all available monitors – completely useless for me. That’s just basic multimonitor support and has NOTHING to do with the real dualhead presentation mode you might know from tools like MS Powerpoint ( multimonitor support – known as " Referentenansicht" in german locales) or Apple’s Keynote. Update on : check out – the presenter-screen extension is available for current OpenOffice 3.0 beta version now (thanks for pointer to Stefan Weigel)īesides some other issues (not being relevant for the topic I’m blogging about) OpenOffice Impress ("the Powerpoint of the free Office suite") has one major drawback: lack of reasonable dualhead support.Īt the end of year 2006 Philipp Lohmann blogged about OpenOffice’s " Multimonitor support for the slideshow".
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