OpenOffice Sluggishness

[Bob Raymond]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:53 pm, Collins wrote:
> Fyi, I'm running the binary version (directly downloaded from OO
> rather than the openoffice-bin ebuild) and it works like a champ.  I'm
> only running an 800 Mz machine, so startup is a full 15-16 seconds,
> but no sluggishness after that.  Screen redraws are practically
> instantaneous.  2.4.19 kernel.
>
> I'm all for install from source for most things, but I have no desire
> to compile this beast ever.

OK.  I've discovered it wasn't OO.  It was OpenGL.  After the first power 
outage today (a two second job that still knocked the comp. off), I noticed 
that my screensaver (which had previously been very jerky) was now smooth.  
OpenOffice, which uses OpenGL for its interface, performs just fine now.  
Sorry to trouble the group, and at least I don't have to waste that 12 hr. 
compile now ;)

						Bob Raymond