On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:16:39 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:26, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Actually, X is bearable, and so is Firefox, > > on 128MB RAM which I have in the laptop I'm using now, > > but OpenOffice is impossible. > I think that there's been discussion about commenting out all of the > unnecessary languages in the spell checker that will significantly speed > things up - I don't have the archives up at the moment to search for > them That tip will lower the memory consumption of OOO by quite a lot if you're in the habit of right-clicking a word for spelling hints. I edited my dictionary list to just contain three lines: $ cat /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst DICT en US en_US HYPH en US en_US THES en US th_en_US With the default (OOO 1.1.2 Fedora packages, because Fedora's 1.1.3 updates introduced a couple of printing bugs that were showstoppers for me), right clicking a word to get spelling suggestions would make the system start to swap and slow down - and this laptop is a P3/800 with 640M RAM. I'm sure it would help out on a 128MB machine as well. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
