From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 19:36:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27841 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27836 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA01718; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:06:08 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970910120607.18077@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:06:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Durham Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: StarOffice (was: Word processors under FreeBSD) References: <3414AACE.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <34158329.897F6171@opentech.stpn.soft.net> <3.0.3.32.19970909143327.006b36fc@midwest.net> <3415ED17.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3415ED17.2781E494@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from Jim Durham on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 08:43:03PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 08:43:03PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: > Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >> >> Is your network connection down when you start star office, On my system >> whenever I open netscape, and my link is down there's 2 min delay or so, >> Netscape is setup to access a local page first not anything that needs to >> be resolved.... >> > Hmmm..nope..on a T1, 24 hours a day. But...perhaps it is looking for the > StarOffice site for the browser functions? Perhaps there is a slow link > to StarOffice's site in Germany? No, I've done a tcpdump. It really is asking for names, getting them resolved immediately by the local name server, and apparently not understanding the reply. The annoying thing is that I installed it on another system, and the problem has gone away. It seems to be related to displaying on an X server on a different machine, but it doesn't always fail in that configuration. BTW, the "new" machine is a 486DX/2-66 with 16 MB of memory. StarOffice is very unhappy with so little memory. Even a menu can take up to 15 seconds to appear, and we've had several hangs where StarOffice has taken focus, so you can't do anything on the X screen until you stop StarOffice (from a vty; the X screen is dead). I think it's related to releasing mouse buttons while StarOffice is trying to handle the button press event, but I'm not sure. It didn't happen on a P5/133 with 64 MB. Has anybody else seen anything like this? Greg