On Thursday 10 February 2005 22:28, Michał Mielczyński wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've done quick search but couldn't find information about my problem.
>
> At scool - where I'm teaching -  we just have made fresh installation of
> ltsp xterminals with terminal server (plus separate file server) on two
> Xeons 2.8GHz and 2 GB RAM. Terminals are old HP Vectra with S3Trio graphics
> card (which work after reconfiguration on Xorg4.x) and few Celerons 300MHz
> with Ati 3DRage (could probably work with some local apps, but this is very
> fresh installation, I just started to configure details)
>
> Everything seems to work fine and very fast with QT/KDE and GTK/Gnome
> applications, but when it comes to Blender or Openoffice I have major
> problem with menus. Every time I try to open menu (in Openoffice even when
> I'm moving mouse over icons on toolbars) I have _noticable_ slowdowns
> (jamming). I guess something is rapidly exchanging information over the
> terminal and server (as I can see it on network card's leds) but the
> question is:
>
> is there any cure for that?
>
> If someone of you had/have similar problems (or solution for thant) PLEASE
> let me know. Lessons starts next week, so by this time I would love to have
> all apps ready to go. I hoped LTSP would be perfect solution for scools -
> but with such slowdowns I start to doubt if upgrading our computer
> classroom was worthy all that money. It all has happened in last few days,
> I don't know anything about other applications behaving like those two, but
> probably there's more.
>
> Server runs Mandrake 10.1 and LTSP 4.1. I have no sound configured yet,
> neither 3D accelerations which I planned to do later (after exchanging
> graphics cards on terminals).
>
> Or maybe I just expect too much of thin clients? Hmm, like I said: every
> KDE and Gnome application (like Gimp with 132 MB bitmap) runs like a charm,
> _very_ quick and smooth, so I expected OO and Blender to work at decent
> speed (at least).

I found that upgrading to the latest OpenOffice.org solved that problem.

CPH


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