Open Office help

[jb]

There os an Open Office quick starter you can download which may help. It is 
called "oooqs" open office quick starter which I downloaded as an rpm thru 
apt-get. I think it preloads open oraface...
JB

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:57 am, Joe wrote:
> Hi.  I tried your suggestion by renaming ~/.openoffice to
> .save.openoffice .  Performance is either the same or a little worse.
> The only difference I noticed is that all my custom document templates
> were unavailable (I still have them, so I can put them back).  All my
> other settings remained in effect - like changes to the toolbars, etc.
> They seem to be stored in ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 .
>
> So, something else is going on.  Any other ideas?
> I'm going to see if installing OOo 1.1.1 makes any difference, but the
> release notes don't say too much about anything like this.
>
> Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
> > I used to have that problem with the old Open Office and if you
> > upgrade or installed a new one, it probably is still using your
> > ~/.openoffice folder for settings. You can just whack that folder
> > (NOTE: All your settings are in there!) and you should see a
> > considerable difference in startup and operation time. I believe the
> > older version had an issue with caching and this folder.
> >
> > Joe wrote:
> >> Hi.  I'm running OOo 1.1.0 on Mandrake 9.1 rc2.  When I start OOo
> >> writer, it puts up a splash screen that stays on top of everything
> >> until it loads which takes about 11 minutes.  Then when I open a file
> >> (even less than one page long) it takes another 6 minutes and
> >> printing takes at least that long.  That's the old story.  I was
> >> resigned to it because I thought my old processor was just too slow
> >> to deal with it - PII 266 MHz, 128MB ram, 30 GB main HD.
> >>
> >> BUT, I just got a Knoppix 3.3 CD to play with.  Once I got it booted
> >> and figured out how to mount my home dir, I was able to load OOo 1.1
> >> writer in about 3 minutes (with no splash screen!), load a 4 page
> >> file in less than 1 minute and print in less than one minute - just
> >> like downtown!
> >>
> >> So, what the heck is going on in the OOo under Mandrake?
> >>
> >> The only clue I have seen is something about making a font cache read
> >> only, but I tried to do that and either I got it wrong or it had no
> >> effect.
> >> I have used fontdrake to get all my windoze fonts and I do use Times
> >> New Roman a lot (from Windoze).
> >>
> >> Any ideas about why it's so slow and how to fix it and how to get rid
> >> of that maddening splash screen that blots out everything for 11
> >> minutes?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Joe.
> >>
> >> P.S.  I just got the OOo 1.1.1 CD but have not installed it yet.  I
> >> don't know if that will make any difference, but the knoppix and MDK
> >> OOo's both report 1.1, so I think they're at the same version.