OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3
John Lagrue
admin at moraystudio.com
Sat Dec 4 22:48:38 UTC 2004
Kevin Street wrote:
> Eric Wood wrote:
>
>> Do a "strings" command on all the OOo binaries and grep for ip
>> patterns. I can't imagine why any ip address would be hard coded
>> into the program. Some FQDN's sure, but not an ip address.
>
>
> It's not going to be in the OO binary or everyone would be seeing
> this. My guess is that the addresses are coming from ~/.recently-used
> which several gnome aps use to create a list of recently used file
> names. In OO these show up at the bottom of the File menu. If you
> end up with some remote URL's listed in the .recently-used file then
> many apps will try to visit them when they start up.
>
> I don't know if there is a way to control what gets saved in the list,
> but you can always clean it out manually and see if that speeds up the
> OO startup.
>
Yes! I just removed the file and oowriter started up at its usual speed.
I have no idea at all where those addresses came from because they were
not listed in the file - but removing it has fixed things.
Thanks everyone for your advice.
JDL
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