Hi,

There is a longstanding bug in impress that is really annoying :
When using the "Run program" intercation with gnome on a shell script in
_presentation_ mode (you have to configure scripts to be executed by default
instead of being edited), _somtimes_ the program is launched twice. Really bad
when the program is mplayer ...

I have a _dirty_ workaround for everyone who are, like me, using this
interaction to launch videos in impress :

Use the following script that you could name "mplayer-ooo" to launch your video.
It has a very basic mutex mechanism that blocks one thread if multiple threads
are launched : very very dirty but I did not found another solution.

Best,
Jacques

#!/bin/sh

# Avoid to launch mplayer twice
# Fixes Openoffice Run interaction bug

LOCKFILE=/tmp/mplayer.lock
echo $$ > $LOCKFILE
sleep 0.3
MYPID=`cat $LOCKFILE`
if [ $MYPID = $$ ]; then
  if [ `pwd` = "/usr/lib/openoffice/program" ]; then
    cd $HOME
  fi
  /usr/bin/mplayer $*
  rm $LOCKFILE
fi