Open Office help

[Cyber Source]

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.
>