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Speed Up OpenOffice

Posted by on Feb 17, 2006 | 2 Comments

A friend knew that I was annoyed with OpenOffice because it opens slowly and takes up so much memory. He passed this information on from Fred Langa’s Langalist.

Apparently OpenOffice exhibits this behavior because it also loads the Java Runtime Environment on startup, to handle databases. If you don’t connect to databases when using OO, you can make it behave more reasonably.

Open Writer, or one of the other OO applications, and select Tools, Options. Click on Java, and deselect “Use Java Runtime Environment.” I tried it, and it now opens much faster and only uses about 30 MB of RAM. If you like this excellent office suite, it’s worth your time to make this simple adjustment.

[tags]open source,open office,bill webb,open writer,langalist[/tags]

  • Jim Gregory

    Holy smokes a smokin program now way faster

  • aceqbaceq

    i suggest a real method to increase performance of OpenOffice. the only way out is DOCK TO TRAY. by using kdocker or alltray.

    but there is a difficulty. in manual mode (when you by using mouse indicates window) kdocker succesfully kick openoffice window to tray, but through command line it did not work by default. the solution is to define window ID of opened OpenOffice window and transfer it to kdocker.

    here is script that you need put in $HOME/.kde/Autostart/office-to-tray.sh

    #!/bin/bash

    /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/scalc -norestore &

    sleep 15

    /usr/local/bin/kdocker -w `/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo -root -children -tree | /bin/grep “OpenOffice.org Calc” | awk ‘{ print $1 }’` &

    /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/swriter -norestore $HOME/.1.doc

    sleep 5

    /usr/local/bin/kdocker -w `/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo -root -children -tree | /bin/grep “.1 – OpenOffice.org Writer” | awk ‘{ print $1 }’` &

    and you need put small simple .1.doc file to $HOME.

    the result: celeron 1800,512Mb,FC4,KDE , xls file 450kb open for 5 seconds!
    and if use icewm even 4 seconds:)