That's a neat idea. I've noticed OOo often slows to a c..r..a..w..l when I first use the spell checker on a single word in a document. I'm going to try this and see if it fixes my problem. Although, I have not noticed OOo being slow to start on my machine....at least no slower than on any other distribution/computer around here. --andy On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:52 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:37:14PM +0000, John Lagrue wrote: > > This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3. I > > start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes > > across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes. > > > > Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc > > activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The > > system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue; > > browsing, email etc. > > > > This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > JDL > Another tip that appeared recently is find the dictionary.lst file > and comment out all the language entries whose dictionaries you don't > want to use. > -- > > ======================================================================= > You can't mend a wristwatch while falling from an airplane. > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > One Trinity Place. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx >
