OpenOffice Sluggishness

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote:
> 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 ;)

Since when does OpenOffice use OpenGL for anything??  It doesn't on my
boxes, since i dont' have OpenGL installed on any but one.

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