I want to see what Presenter Console looks like while I design my slide-notes in Libreoffice Impress for my talks. I'm working on a single-monitor system but Presenter Console can only be enabled (Slide Show → Settings) when a second monitor is present.
Is there a way to show (only) Presenter Console on a single monitor?
I've been looking for a way to do the same thing.
While still quite clumsy, this is the simplest method I have found so far:
You will need to install Xephyr (which lets you start an X server in a window) and a light window manager like xfwm4:
sudo apt-get install Xephyr xfwm4
Then start up Xephyr with two screens:
Xephyr +xinerama -screen 800x600 -origin 800x0 -screen 800x600 :1 &
Then start a window manager on the new server:
DISPLAY=:1 xfwm4 &
Then start impress:
DISPLAY=:1 libreoffice --impress &
I wish it weren't this complicated. Having an option in Impress to view the console on a single monitor setup would be very useful when practicing presentations.
I guess, you mean the “Presenter Console”.
Yes, use Open Expert Configuration via Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced.
Search for StartAlways.
You should get a node org.openoffice.Office.PresenterScreen with line Presenter. Double-click that line to toggle the boolean value to true.
But still I do not know, how to share not a whole window.
I found a macro on the Libreoffice community site that lets one manually toggle presenter mode without a second screen.
Add show presenter view in Impress | Ask LibreOffice
Not the cleanest solution, but seems nicer than launching a second x-server.
