problem starting office

[Jack L.]

On 10/22/07, AN <andy at neu.net> wrote:
> I recently installed openoffice 2.2 via pkg_add.  When I try to start the
> program, I get the following response:
>
> [root at R51 /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.2.1/program]# ./soffice
> no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
>
>
> I am running Gnome 2.18.1 on FreeBSD 6.2 stable.  I am not sure how to
> troubleshoot this, please advise what other information can help solve
> this.  Any help is appreciated.

Why are you running openoffice in root? Are you logged in as root or
user on the window manager?