Openoffice/Libreoffice... is it slow for you too?

[William Park]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 07/25/2011 12:06 PM, William Park wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Openoffice/Libreoffice has never been "fast".  But, when it's first
> > launched, it's fast enough that I can't complain.  But, when I
> > switch to text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and come back to X, the monitor
> > is black for few seconds (which is very long time, I might add).
> > After that, Openoffice/Libreoffice is so slow that it becomes
> > unusable.  It's only Office that's slow, though.  X itself is okey,
> > and other X applications (ie. xterm, firefox) are okey too.
> > 
> > Has anyone experienced the same thing?
> >         Kernel-3.0.0
> >         NVidia-275.21
> >         Openoffice-3.0
> >         Libreoffice-3.4.1
> > 
> > KWord (KDE) is way faster, but it doesn't have the features that I need.
> > 
> > Anyways, I tried Lyx for the first time, yesterday.  I liked it.
> > Very intuitive, if you know LaTeX, of course.  I installed it at
> > home and at work!
> 
> I *really* like Kile - wrote my whole thesis with it. Great LaTeX editor.
> 
> Regarding the slowdown, which Java JRE are you using? I have best
> results with sun-java6-jre for applications. openjdk-6-jre is great and
> all, but I run into a lot of KVM, lights out management applications and
> the like just won't run without the full on Oracle JRE.

I just upgraded from jre-6u20 (came with Slackware) to jre-6u26 (from
Oracle site).  Slightly better, but still too slow to be usable.
-- 
William
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