On Thursday 02 December 2004 18:47, JL wrote: > >16:54:11 $ date;ooffice;date > >Thu Dec 2 17:28:44 CST 2004 > >Thu Dec 2 17:28:55 CST 2004 > > > >This time reflects the second invocation, not the first (it was > > near 25 seconds). I have trimmed the spell checker file and I'm > > using the XFce desktop if that makes a difference. > > That's the sort of speed I got with FC 2. Having done a clean > install of FC3 the performance has fallen through the floor. > This was also a clean FC3 install. This tells me that it's not a fundamental problem with OpenOffice but rather something associated with the environment. Perhaps running "strace ooffice" will allow you to see what's hanging up. Regards, Mike Klinke