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 > >> > >> > >>--- > >>avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > >>Virus Database (VPS): 0517-6, 30/04/2005 > >>Tested on: 4/05/2005 12:26:09 AM > >>avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > >>http://www.avast.com > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > >>Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > >> > >> > >-------------------------------------------------- > >Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> > >-------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > >--- > >avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > >Virus Database (VPS): 0517-6, 30/04/2005 > >Tested on: 4/05/2005 4:21:24 PM > >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > >http://www.avast.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0518-2, 04/05/2005 > Tested on: 4/05/2005 10:37:49 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
