I just found a site tonight which suggests that OpenOffice, like Firefox, tries to cache pixmaps in the XServer.
http://mille-xterm.org/en/TerminalMemoryUsage I wish there were one global place where we could turn this off for all applications. On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:57 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:39:06 -0600, Daniel J. Summers wrote > > Bryan Quigley wrote: > > > What web browser do you use with that website > > > (http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/bms/teacherwebs/sdavenport/artgallery6.htm > > > > > > <http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/bms/teacherwebs/sdavenport/artgallery6.htm>) > > > > > > normally? > > > It performs very badly in both Firefox and IE on Windows 2000. For me > > > both become very very slow to respond. IE handles it slighly better > > > than Firefox, but not by much. Perhaps the website itself deserves > > > some blame? (not making it any less of a Firefox/XOrg bug) > > I'll say - that design is terrible! The images should have their > > quality reduced at least 60%, if not more - at that resolution, you > > simply don't get any additional benefit from the larger file sizes. > > Yep, but that's not really the point. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the Cotter Technology > Department, and is believed to be clean. > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
