Hi Patrick

On Wed, 04 May 2005, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:

> Well, one of the things that seems to have reduced the start-up time for 
> the spell checker is changing the default language!
> 
> I had
> 
> Local setting: English (Australia)
> Default currency: AUD $ English (Australia)
> 
> Default languages for documents as GERMAN ????
> 
> I have no idea how that happened - my German's not that good.
> 
> Now the spell-checker is quicker - and the options are shorter too! 
> Though there are far too many that have little relevance (guess I should 
> post to Ooffice about this).
> 
> Urm,
> 
> "vmstat 1 > vmstat.txt
> 
> wait for about 30sec or so, then type
> 
> ^C
> 
> post the output of vmstat.txt"
> 
> Gave me nothing. I can't find "vmstat.txt" and nothing appeared on screen 
> in the terminal (also, what happened was I couldn't OPEN a terminal for a 
> few seconds because it all froze/slowed down).
What does

try

vmstat
  

> 
> "^C" = Ctrl+C/c

Ctrl+c

 
> "^C" = Shift+C/c
> 
> "^C" = Shift then ^ then C/c
> 
> (I wasn't exactly sure what the command was, sorry, so tried all of the 
> above.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       Patrick
> 
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Darren Williams wrote:
> 
> >Hi Patrick
> >
> >On Wed, 04 May 2005, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Whilst using openoffice (1.1.2), if I do a spellcheck (right click on 
> >>error) the check is slow to appear. If I choose the option to check the 
> >>whole document, when I've finished, I get a box that says "The 
> >>spellcheck is complete" and I can 'okay' it away. Whoever, when I do 
> >>this, there is a grey box remaining on the screen, of the dimensions of 
> >>the "The spellcheck is complete" box. The only way I can get rid of this 
> >>is by scrolling the screen or minimising and then re-accessing.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >This is a common problem with ooffice, I have just put up with it.
> >It does this sometimes with inlined images after scrolling the
> >text that is supposed to appear is missing where the imiage
> >use to be and rescrolling will redisplay the text correctly.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>X itself seems a lot slower at the moment too.
> >>
> >>I'm using FC3, 3G P4, 512RAM.
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Is there much disk actitvity?
> >When it does it again run
> >
> >vmstat 1 > vmstat.txt
> >
> >wait for about 30sec or so, then type
> >
> >^C
> >
> >post the output of vmstat.txt
> >
> > 
> >
> >>It's an odd problem that I've not had before.
> >>
> >>I've closed X and restarted it but...
> >>
> >>As usual, any help would be most appreciated.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>  Patrick
> >>
> >>
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