Hello, Thanks for these pointers. It worked. The only "oddity" is that I can only start OpenOffice by typing soffice.bin. soffice will not work, as well as swriter or scalc. When I start soffice.bin as a regular user, the respective application either freezes or doesn't allow me to save anything. However, when I use OpenOffice with sudo soffice.bin it works fine. That's a compromise I can live with. ;-)
Once again, thanks! -- Beste Gr|_e / Best regards , Nikolaus Hiebaum