OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:37:14PM +0000, John Lagrue wrote:
> This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3. I 
> start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes 
> across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes.
> 
> Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc 
> activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The 
> system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue; 
> browsing, email etc.
> 
> This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> JDL
Another tip that appeared recently is find the dictionary.lst file
and comment out all the language entries whose dictionaries you don't
want to use.
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