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I am trying to launch loffice or localc via an established ssh connection (ForwardX11 enabled). It does however fail to show the loffice gui / splashscreen on the computer from where I run my ssh session. The loffice application runs in the remote bash but without any command line output.

All other gui applications like xterm, gvim, PyQt5 scripts work fine. I also tried to run

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin

directly, but to no avail. (loffice is a shell script redirecting to another shell script, which as far as I understand eventually launches soffice.bin.)

Also without any success I tried:

loffice --display ${DISPLAY}
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    If there's a running LibreOffice program on the remote system, have you tried killing it?
    – muru
    Feb 12, 2015 at 12:42
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    The --display switch was what I needed. I noticed (via x11vnc) that there were instances running on the default display, but even after killing them, LibreOffice started on DISPLAY 0.0 Apr 19, 2017 at 11:12

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If a LibreOffice window is open, it opens a window in the display of that process. Therefore one way would be to kill any running LibreOffice processes.

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  • >:) Good one!!!
    – Fabby
    Feb 16, 2015 at 16:20

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