Perhaps this is interesting, perhaps it is nothing. Starting apps from openoffice in the shell as normal user or root gives another feedback: [roger@neo ~]$ ooimpress no suitable windowing system found, exiting. [roger@neo ~]$ su - Password: [root@neo ~]# ooimpress javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! <-- DIFF no suitable windowing system found, exiting. ...but i install the whole bunch of gcj... (yum groupinstall "Java Development" -> i think this should be a complete thing :-) Roger