[opensuse] OpenOfficeWriter 3.1.1
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly? Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well. Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete. My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
I'd say something else is wrong there. OOo has its issues, but you should not see sluggishness like what you're describing.... it might be helpful to turn off graphics antialiasing. I just did some experimenting, and switching that off makes a huge difference in responsiveness. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mark Misulich said the following on 09/10/2009 12:18 PM:
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete
Sometimes, often enough to be annoying (as in 3-5 times a week), laptop does that. One third the memory of yours, so that's not it. Only sometimes, and not reproducible to order. However its not just OpenOfice, its any application that needs the file selection control box. * attach files to a message in Thunderbird * save a web page in Firefox * save a downloaded PDF in Adobe or Foxit This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen. The command menu pops up some minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it. The delay in the pager makes it useless. This seems to be associated with _some_ upgrades to KDE4.3. It wasn't there for KDE4.0/4.1, I'm not sure bout 4.2. So why don't I report it as a bug. I've no idea how to reproduce it. Right now everything is fine. It usually occurs after the machine has been up for an hour, but this morning it was like that at boot. Always reboot cures it, sometimes for the session, sometimes for just a few hours. Related, perhaps, is that _sometimes_ when I tab between applications the display freezes with the 'film strip' of applications. No action, no response from the mouse; so it may not be KDE, it might be Xorg. In all these cases I can ssh into the machine and the text mode stuff works. The reason I wonder about Xorg is that one time when it froze and I ssh'd in and did an 'init 3', the KDE stuff didn't die off as it would normally, and after 'kill -9' to them all, Xorg was left and it would not respond to ANY kill signal, 1, 9, 11, 15 So I suspect your problem isn't with OpenOffice As I say, if I had a clue as to why or how to reproduce, I report as a bug, but past experience tells me that developers aren't happy with vague reports like this.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
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This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen. The command menu pops up some minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it. The delay in the pager makes it useless.
Is Nepomuk/Strigi running? That sounds a lot like the Nepomuk indexer doing it's usual "it's time to index your computer so I'll eat up 110% of your system resources for a random amount of time" thing. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton said the following on 09/10/2009 05:47 PM:
This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen. The command menu pops up some minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it. The delay in the pager makes it useless.
Is Nepomuk/Strigi running? That sounds a lot like the Nepomuk indexer doing it's usual "it's time to index your computer so I'll eat up 110% of your system resources for a random amount of time" thing.
Good point. It wasn't when I ssh'd in after a freeze. However ... I have disabled it in system settings, but sometimes I do see it running! I have chmod'd a-x but it keeps turning back on! There seem to be two different freezes: a) menu and panel and some (but not all) dialogue boxes become sluggish even though the applications, including new starts from the command line or to handle downloads or a click on a file icon in Konqueror and the corresponding new wows are NOT sluggish. b) freeze when the tab between applications using the 'film strip' seems to freeze all of Xorg, mouse and keyboard and prevent ctl-alt-tab to a console Is there a reliable way to get rid of Nepomuk? -- A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, I was asked to submit this issue as a bug to Open Office. Here is the issue number Issue 105065. Previous suggestions were to turn off antialiasing. I found that by turning antialiasing off that I was able to get rid of the problem. I searched around on google and found some complicated bash commands that I wasn't sure would do the job. Then on the OOo bug tracker I found a bug for something else, and it told a simple way to shut off antialiasing. Tools>Options>View>deselect antialiasing. I wrote all this stuff a couple of days ago to the OSuse mailing list but I think the server was down and it got lost, so here is everything again. Thanks for the help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 23:47 +0200, Clayton wrote:
This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen. The command menu pops up some minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it. The delay in the pager makes it useless.
Is Nepomuk/Strigi running? That sounds a lot like the Nepomuk indexer doing it's usual "it's time to index your computer so I'll eat up 110% of your system resources for a random amount of time" thing.
C.
I checked, and Nepomuk is not installed. I found strigi was installed (I thought I got rid of it a long time ago) so I uninstalled it. When I scroll the page up past the fontwork at the top of the page where I have placed them over a photo that covers the front page, the page hangs up and doesn't scroll regularly. Reading top output when I scroll to this point, soffice.bin jumps to 56% of cpu from 0 or 2.3%, and Xorg jumps to 42% from 0.3%. So I can say that a major problem seems to be with the fontwork, not that I know how to fix it. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I checked, and Nepomuk is not installed. I found strigi was installed (I thought I got rid of it a long time ago) so I uninstalled it.
It keeps coming back like an undead zombie. :-(
When I scroll the page up past the fontwork at the top of the page where I have placed them over a photo that covers the front page, the page hangs up and doesn't scroll regularly. Reading top output when I scroll to this point, soffice.bin jumps to 56% of cpu from 0 or 2.3%, and Xorg jumps to 42% from 0.3%. So I can say that a major problem seems to be with the fontwork, not that I know how to fix it.
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:19 +0200, Clayton wrote:
When I scroll the page up past the fontwork at the top of the page where I have placed them over a photo that covers the front page, the page hangs up and doesn't scroll regularly. Reading top output when I scroll to this point, soffice.bin jumps to 56% of cpu from 0 or 2.3%, and Xorg jumps to 42% from 0.3%. So I can say that a major problem seems to be with the fontwork, not that I know how to fix it.
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website.
C
I spent some time with google trying to find out how to turn off antialiasing, but only came up with complicated bash commands to run in terminal that I wasn't sure would really do the trick. I did find the simple answer when I tried to find a bug report for this problem on the OOo website. It is tools>options>view>uncheck antialiasing. That seems to have done the trick, I will know more when I try to use OO to do the newsletter next month. Thanks for the help! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 11 September 2009, Clayton wrote:
I checked, and Nepomuk is not installed. I found strigi was installed (I thought I got rid of it a long time ago) so I uninstalled it.
It keeps coming back like an undead zombie. :-(
When I scroll the page up past the fontwork at the top of the page where I have placed them over a photo that covers the front page, the page hangs up and doesn't scroll regularly. Reading top output when I scroll to this point, soffice.bin jumps to 56% of cpu from 0 or 2.3%, and Xorg jumps to 42% from 0.3%. So I can say that a major problem seems to be with the fontwork, not that I know how to fix it.
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website.
Could you please report this at https://bugzilla.novell.com against the product OpenOffice.org? -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:26 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
On Friday 11 September 2009, Clayton wrote:
I checked, and Nepomuk is not installed. I found strigi was installed (I thought I got rid of it a long time ago) so I uninstalled it.
It keeps coming back like an undead zombie. :-(
When I scroll the page up past the fontwork at the top of the page where I have placed them over a photo that covers the front page, the page hangs up and doesn't scroll regularly. Reading top output when I scroll to this point, soffice.bin jumps to 56% of cpu from 0 or 2.3%, and Xorg jumps to 42% from 0.3%. So I can say that a major problem seems to be with the fontwork, not that I know how to fix it.
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website.
Could you please report this at https://bugzilla.novell.com against the product OpenOffice.org?
Hi Petr, I opened a bug on this problem at OpenOffice because I was using a different computer and didn't have this email to reference. I will open the bug at novell as you have requested. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 18 September 2009, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:26 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
On Friday 11 September 2009, Clayton wrote:
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website.
Could you please report this at https://bugzilla.novell.com against the product OpenOffice.org?
Hi Petr, I opened a bug on this problem at OpenOffice because I was using a different computer and didn't have this email to reference. I will open the bug at novell as you have requested.
Do you mean that you reported the bug at http://www.openoffice.org/? What is the issue number? It might be enough if the bug happens also with the upstream build. I expect that this bug should be common. Thorsten knowns about it, so he would look at it if time permits. It is possible that an upstream developer will be faster, ... -- Best Regards, Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> wrote:
On Friday 18 September 2009, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:26 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
On Friday 11 September 2009, Clayton wrote:
On my system, moving Fontwork can hit the CPU hard unless I turn off antialiasing - I've never noticed this since I've never used Fontworks before. There might be a bug open on this... don't know, but it'd be worth a search in the OpenOffice.org website.
Could you please report this at https://bugzilla.novell.com against the product OpenOffice.org?
Hi Petr, I opened a bug on this problem at OpenOffice because I was using a different computer and didn't have this email to reference. I will open the bug at novell as you have requested.
Do you mean that you reported the bug at http://www.openoffice.org/? What is the issue number?
It might be enough if the bug happens also with the upstream build. I expect that this bug should be common. Thorsten knowns about it, so he would look at it if time permits. It is possible that an upstream developer will be faster, ...
-- Best Regards,
Petr Mladek software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: pmladek@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 952 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/
Hi Petr, Ok, here is what I did. I opened the bug at Openoffice.org, issue number 105065. I opened it up there because I opened it up using my desktop computer at home when I returned from my last business trip. I had the problem originally on my laptop when I was on the road trying to get some work done on the newsletter I write for an organization. I forwarded the newsletter to my desktop from my laptop to see if I had the same problem there. I did, so I opened up the bug from memory at openoffice.org forgetting that you asked me to open it up at novel. The issue of that bug is 105065. The openoffice.org bug was closed a day or two after I opened it. They asked me to download the tarball open office 3.1.1 from open office directly and install it on my computer. In the meantime, I had left on another business trip, so I told them I would do it in a week and a half when I returned home. I think they didn't want to wait, so they tried it out on Ubuntu and didn't have the problem, so they closed the bug. Here is the final report: I checked with 32bit on Suse and 64bit OOo 3.1.1 on ubuntu but I could not detect a problem like the described. Highest OOo cpu peak was 12%. I think it is a problem of the OOo build provided by Novell or something with the XServer. Please use the OOo from our download page. I looked up the original email stored on my laptop computer after I saw that response, and realized that you wanted me to file the bug with Novell, not openoffice. So I did that and sent out the email to let you know. Here is the number for that bug: 540147 Here is the url for that bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540147 I hope that this makes things clear now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power. OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work. If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
If OO 2.4 is really faster than 3.1, I would not mind going back to it for at least a test. Is there a 11.1 repo for OO 2.4? I tried to look in the build service, but it is a major headache because of all the "openoffice" repositories. (75 pages worth). Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
If OO 2.4 is really faster than 3.1, I would not mind going back to it for at least a test.
Is there a 11.1 repo for OO 2.4?
I tried to look in the build service, but it is a major headache because of all the "openoffice" repositories. (75 pages worth).
Greg
reply from Shayon(warlock) Well i totally agree with David,just go through the Repo's and updates ....and download the files.but ya,openoffice report problems no doubt,but it can be managed to an extent Shayon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqydV0ACgkQkCJ6Vc13T/fkfQCeKP4foZAWYNZIMmDPOia8m2oy fdcAnRafDfRa5siRiwLGj2qy21RYb+mP =gkjf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Shayon <hkwarlock@gmail.com> wrote:
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
If OO 2.4 is really faster than 3.1, I would not mind going back to it for at least a test.
Is there a 11.1 repo for OO 2.4?
I tried to look in the build service, but it is a major headache because of all the "openoffice" repositories. (75 pages worth).
Greg
reply from Shayon(warlock) Well i totally agree with David,just go through the Repo's and updates ....and download the files.but ya,openoffice report problems no doubt,but it can be managed to an extent
Shayon
My question was, where is the repo for OO 2.4 for opensuse 11.1? I just did a search on the build service for openoffice_org-base and I don't see anything that old. <http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.1&p=3&q=openoffice_org-base> Maybe I need to use a different search? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 17 September 2009 12:17:22 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
If OO 2.4 is really faster than 3.1, I would not mind going back to it for at least a test.
Is there a 11.1 repo for OO 2.4?
I tried to look in the build service, but it is a major headache because of all the "openoffice" repositories. (75 pages worth).
Greg
It has been my saving grace while OO 3 tries to outgrow its training wheels. Personally, I think OO 2.4 runs circles around OO 3.1 -- and -- I don't lose work with it crashing. For example, just go download OO 2.4 from: http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/rpm/x86_64/ Keep in handy in a directory: 14:55 nirvana:/srv/www/download/openSUSE_11.0> ls -1 x86_64/oo24/ OpenOffice_org-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-base-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-branding-upstream-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-calc-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-devel-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-draw-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-filters-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm (You have to get this from the oss repository) OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-2.4.0.14-1.1.noarch.rpm OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-prebuilt-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-impress-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-kde-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-mailmerge-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-math-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-mono-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-officebean-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-pyuno-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-sdk-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-sdk-doc-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-testtool-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-writer-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm NOTE: the install will fail if you don't have: OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-2.4.0.14-1.1.noarch.rpm Somebody screwed up the dependencies when they moved icon-themes to icon- themes-prebuilt. After the files are in place, just: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep OpenOffice_org) && rpm -Uvh *rpm And you will have a reliable well functioning oo again... Works like a champ! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 23:14 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Hi David, I found that the problem could be "fixed" on 3.1.1 Writer by going to tools>options>view>deselect antialiasing. I also have another linux distro installed on this computer, and it has OOo 2.6 installed. That version doesn't use antialiasing so it doesn't have the problem with fontwork that I described for 3.1.1. I did find that the fontwork produced in 3.1.1 doesn't display correctly in 2.6, all the fontwork is displayed too thin. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@gmail.com> [09-17-09 22:04]:
I found that the problem could be "fixed" on 3.1.1 Writer by going to tools>options>view>deselect antialiasing.
I just made that change, but have not had any problems with OO ver 3.1.1 OOO310m21 (Build:9319). I primarily use scalc and have one instance open continuously. No crashes or hangs. 11.2 M7 (and all the M# previous). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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