[K12OSN] Re: Troubles with OpenOffice over 8 clients

Angelo Nera a.nera at didasca.it
Thu May 6 14:30:41 UTC 2004


1. Sylvain Phelippeaux - Wanadoo - wrote:

 > Hi,
 > my server : Athlon XP 2400 + RAM 1024 + Nforce2 + 2 LAN card (realtek
 > et linksys)
 > my clients (8) : Dell P166 with RAM 64, integrated LAN + integrated video
 > my LAN : Switch 100 mbs + all certified cables
 > But : my clients can't use properly Openoffice because, when they try
 > to use the horizontal bar, it's really slow...
 > What is the solution ?
 > ...

2. Dan Bo replied:

 > This is a known problem with OO.o.  Menus are called
 > and give an error because of an X library.
 > Unfortunately, this library is called for every single
 > menu entry, which means that menu drawing is slow over
 > a thin client or other exported X session.  This bug
 > has been fixed and will be eliminated in the next
 > version of OO.o.
 > I'm sorry that I don't have a link handy or more
 > specific information, but this is just memory from
 > reading /.
 > Dan

3. Here are two questions.

A) Does anybody know whether this problem has been fixed with OOo 1.1.1 ?

B) Does anybody know whether OOo 1.1.1 will be part of the K12LTSp 4.1 
distribution ?

Thanks for your answers.


Angelo Nera

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