problem starting office

[Alex Thurgood]

Le Monday 22 October 2007 16:10:44 AN, vous avez écrit :

Hi,

>
> [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.

Apparently, you are trying to start OOo as root. A default FreeBSD 6.2 
installation doesn't allow root accounts to start a graphical environment, 
which is why OOo moans that it can't find any windowing system.

Alex