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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
