[K12OSN] Open Office Slowness

[Dale Sykora]

Shane Stafford wrote:
> good morning
> 
> We have kinda of an urgent situation.  We are running a Summer Tech
> Academy next week to train our faculty.  We are focusing on LTSP for all
> classes K-6.  We ran our computer lab on LTSP 3.x last year and the
> computer teacher loved it.  
> 
> Here is the problem, Open Office menus are pulling down very very slow. 
> Once in a screen it performs ok.  But the mouse movement and reaction of
> the pull downs is terrible.   We did not see this last year.  The server
> is a new one, but same model and specs as last years model.
> We are now running 4.0.1.
> 
> any ideas?  We are pretty much a full blown LTSP school, but I know the
> teachers won't stand for this kind of performance.  What is different?
> thanks
> Shane
Shane,
	There is a known bug in older versions of OO related to excessive X 
load during menu redraw.  You might want to check archives or google for 
it or check buzilla at OOo site for your version of OO.  IIRC the bug 
was fixed in newer versions.

Thanks,

Dale