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tommy1987

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From: Genève, Suisse

Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 7

Open Office Woes

I wasn't really sure where to post this but I am running fluxbox and just installed Open Office and when trying to run one of the programs e.g. scalc. I get the following error:

"no suitable windowing system found, exiting"

This error occurs when trying to execute all the openoffice programs.
Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: Open Office Woes

Maybe edit the menu entries to start the appropriate gnome service first.

[exec] (openoffice-calc) {~/bin/scalc}

with a script in the vein of

~/bin/scalc:

gconfd &
/opt/openoffice/wherever_it_is/scalc && pkill gconfd

I don't know if gconfd is what you need for sure, you may need to start full gnome services, but something in that vein might work for you.

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Gluffs

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Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 25

Re: Open Office Woes

I had the same problem but it worked after i installed the "hidden dependencie"

pacman -S libsndfile

More info about it here

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10680