Re: [tlug] Applications not starting in SUSE

["Neil Millar" <nmillar@example.com>]

On 02/07/07, Brian Chandler <brian@example.com> wrote:
> to open my shop spreadsheet in OpenOffice whateverit'scalled, and
> whether I click "Office Suite" or "Spreadsheet" from the menu, or find
> the file and try "Open with...", what happens is that the irritating
> jiggling icon appears in the taskbar, and well, jiggles for a bit. Then
> it just disappears, leaving no trace, no error message or anything. What
> should I do next? (Apart from upgrading everything to Ubuntu...)

Open a terminal and type: oocalc

If there's some sort of problem starting oocalc (the name of the
spreadsheet portion) it *should* tell you in the terminal what the
problem is....

Neil.