Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to StarOffice in terms of performance compatbility to M$-Word format? I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM, and I still wouldn't recommend it! I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be useable. WordPerfect was slightly less sluggish, but so unstable as to be useless; it frequently crashed for no good reason. In addition, it didn't understand the way that my windowmanager did focus (focus-follows-mouse in fvwm), so bringing up a dialog box caused everything to hang for as much as a minute while the focus shifted rapidly from the main window to the dialog box and back. Entirely unsatisfactory. It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster machine, but a friend with dual-processor box installed from my CD and called me the next day to ask, Is it _supposed_ to work this badly? Just my experience. Didn't get to try and Word documents. Rob -- Paranoid Club meeting this Friday. Now ... just try to find out where!
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
* On 11-06-01 at 14:10 Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be [...] It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster machine, but a friend with dual-processor box installed from my CD and called me the next day to ask, Is it _supposed_ to work this badly? Just my experience. Didn't get to try and Word documents. Rob +and here the quote ends+ Hmm I run wordperfect/AbiWord combo on my p75 laptop with 24mb of ram.. it works satisfactory... One can read/write .doc files, for anything else.. plain text you certainly do not need anything that fancy and plain ol' vi(m) or it's GtkGUI gvim fits in just nicelly ;) just my 0.02 B. -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:39:45PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: For me, the performance of StarOffice, apart from the startup time, isn't that bad, using a 750 mhz Duron, 256 Mb ram and a rather slow harddrive. Yes, as soon as it's up and running its ok. But its still abit sluggish. But you would expect more on such a machine. StarOffice is just bloated if you ask me. The only components I will ever use is the word and the spreadsheet application. Not to mention the ugly windows-like look with a Start button at the bottom left (that beats me). Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address
program response sluggish compared to Win98
Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? Thanks in advance, Rico
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? you might want to check the x server settings - the acceleration should be turned on. other than that it might be just poorly implemented application - is it sluggish for one app only or for everything? or poorly accelerated x... erik
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? AFAIK, (and I could be wrong) WP8 for linux is basically the Windows Wordperfect emulated through Wine, so naturally it would run more sluggish than a native application on either OS. -Rob
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:47:10PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | rich wrote: | | Howdy all, | | I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform | relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While | WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I | let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, | however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen | pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can | adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 | just not as well-designed? | | you might want to check the x server settings - the acceleration | should be turned on. Maybe ... I just got my SiS 6326 video card configured and it only works with the no_accel option :-(. Some things, like gnumeric, scroll just fine. gvim, however, is quite sluggish when scrolling. I have access to a 'doze box with XWin32 so I tried gvim xhosted to the 'doze box and it behaved just fine. Maybe X4 will work better... -D
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:55:21AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the page down key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? AFAIK, (and I could be wrong) WP8 for linux is basically the Windows Wordperfect emulated through Wine, so naturally it would run more sluggish than a native application on either OS. You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. However, because your name has a good ring to it, I forgive you for being wrong. Rob -- I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man. -- Fred Allen
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to StarOffice in terms of performance compatbility to M$-Word format? I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM, and I still wouldn't recommend it! Thanks Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address
Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to StarOffice in terms of performance compatbility to M$-Word format? I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM, and I still wouldn't recommend it! I guess WP2000 isn't much better, since it uses wine to run, it's essentially still a windows program. The windows version isn't very fast in native windows... The (wine) linux port of Corel PhotoPaint isn't very fast either, and I don't think WP2000 will be much faster... The UI is a bit sluggish. Last time I tried exporting to word from wordperfect, it only crashed ;). The Word 2000 Wordperfect import filter works quite nice for me, though the WP2000 export filter should be better then the W2000 import, according some computer magazines... For me, the performance of StarOffice, apart from the startup time, isn't that bad, using a 750 mhz Duron, 256 Mb ram and a rather slow harddrive. The StarOffice Word export works ok, though images are a bit streched, and the position stuff is fucked up, so I usually have to re-insert the images in Word... -- ,---. Name: Alson van der Meulen Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `---' Ooops. Save your work, everyone. FAST! -
