Did you try setting the $DISPLAY? In the past I had situations where ssh starts DISPLAY=:1 if there is already a session running on the server. Also sometimes I had to specify DISPLAY=:0. Would be news to me that Open has issues with this however
On May 12, 2019, at 11:27, Roger Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > I am guessing, but the following explanation of the 'ssh -Y hostname > libreoffice' problem seems reasonable. Libreoffice asks 'is accelerated > graphics available?' and gets a yes or no answer depending on the driver > availble on hostname. maybe either of you could try to just ssh -Y (-X if on a corresponding machine) and then start Libreoffice to get some verbose output on the issue. If it complains about being unable to open the Xsession it should already be running and you can try stuff like DISPLAY=:1 libreoffice
