Note: For those who were wondering, this post has nothing to do with the drink, and everything to do with my inner geek.

This post is to give some info on how to get the lyrics presentation software Openlp working on your Linux install. I didn’t really have to do any tinkering, things pretty much just worked. Here is my setup:

• Multiple monitor setup already working in Linux, with KDE and Xinerama.
• Wine 0.9.57 (configured as Windows XP)
• Openlp 1.0

I ran the installation with Wine, and everything seemed to go smoothly. Once running Openlp, the display settings drop down box has an option to display lyrics on “Monitor 2 on X11 Windowing System”.

The only thing I’ve had problems with so far is displaying alerts; no text ever seems to show (just the red background). Not sure if this is an Openlp bug or a Wine problem yet. Hope this post helps someone!

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