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cant run open office

Asked by Alon

Hello ,
Upon running ooffice , it office does not open and i get the following error from the terminal

root@alon-laptop:/home/alon# ooffice
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Failed to open display
root@alon-laptop:/home/alon# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display: :0
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

root@alon-laptop:/home/alon#

Thanks

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Have you solved your xorg.conf problem (question: 9392)?
If yes you should mark the other question as solved, if not than we need to solve it before you can do anything else.

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Best Félim Whiteley (felimwhiteley) said : 		#2

Hi Alon,

You seem to be trying to run Open Office as root (The # symbol in the command line indicates this), you should only run applications as your normal user (it will show a $ at the console). This is a security setting in case there are dangerous scripts/macros in a document you open which would potentially damage your PC. If you have the # show up in a terminal you should type "exit" at the prompt and it will drop back to your normal user mode.

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Alon (alon-benari) said : 		#3

Thanks Félim Whiteley, that solved my question.