Don't start Impress Remote server in headless mode.

Change-Id: Ibafe57413a60745e949dc3146fbc843c52c029d6

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/Server.cxx b/sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/Server.cxx
index 7404bbddcfbf..d110832bee88 100644
--- a/sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/Server.cxx
+++ b/sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/Server.cxx
@@ -364,6 +364,21 @@ void RemoteServer::deauthoriseClient( ::boost::shared_ptr< ClientInfo > pClient
 void SdDLL::RegisterRemotes()
 {
     SAL_INFO( "sdremote", "SdDLL::RegisterRemotes called" );
+
+    // The remote server is likely of no use in headless mode. And as only
+    // one instance of the server can actually own the appropriate ports its
+    // probably best to not even try to do so from our headless instance
+    // (i.e. as to avoid blocking expected usage).
+    // It could perhaps be argued that we would still need the remote
+    // server for tiled rendering of presentations, but even then this
+    // implementation would not be of much use, i.e. would be controlling
+    // the purely imaginary headless presentation -- instead we'd need
+    // to have some sort of mechanism of plugging in our tiled rendering
+    // client to be controlled by the remote server, or provide an
+    // alternative implementation.
+    if ( Application::IsHeadlessModeEnabled() )
+        return;
+
     uno::Reference< uno::XComponentContext > xContext = comphelper::getProcessComponentContext();
     if ( xContext.is()  && !officecfg::Office::Impress::Misc::Start::EnableSdremote::get( xContext ) )
         return;