On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:16:39 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 14:26, akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
> Actually, X is bearable, and so is Firefox,
> on 128MB RAM which I have in the laptop I'm using now,
> but OpenOffice is impossible.
I think that there's been discussion about commenting out all of
the
unnecessary languages in the spell checker that will significantly speed
things up - I don't have the archives up at the moment to search for
them
That tip will lower the memory consumption of OOO by quite a lot if you're
in the habit of right-clicking a word for spelling hints.
I edited my dictionary list to just contain three lines:
$ cat /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst
DICT en US en_US
HYPH en US en_US
THES en US th_en_US
With the default (OOO 1.1.2 Fedora packages, because Fedora's 1.1.3
updates introduced a couple of printing bugs that were showstoppers for
me), right clicking a word to get spelling suggestions would make the
system start to swap and slow down - and this laptop is a P3/800 with
640M RAM. I'm sure it would help out on a 128MB machine as well.
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