I am having similar problems as expressed by Leslie Wright. I downloaded NeoOffice and loaded it on my iMac, and it seems to be reasonably responsive. But, it is still much slower than Tiger. I assume that there are issues that need to be addressed, and I look forward to upgrades.
On 11/5/07, Guy Voets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/11/4, Leslie Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I generally love OO and use it as my office suite of choice on my Mac--I > > have been too cheap so far to splurge the $80 for a iWork licence. > > > > I upgraded my Mac to Leopard and so far am disappointed with the > > performance of OO under X11 as opposed to how it fared under Tiger. > > There seem to be lots of problems in generally with X11 under Leopard. > > This seems to have ill effects for OO--often slow to start, screen slow > > to repaint when resizing windows, etc. Save these aesthetic annoyances > > the software seems to perform as it should. I also can't launch X11 from > > the dock anymore with things going strange. I have to launch it from an > > alias on the desktop. I have found that adding scalc, simpress, and > > swriter to the Applications list for X11 and launching them that way is > > faster than just clicking on OpenOffice.org 2.3.app in the Applications > > folder. > > > > I am running a well appointed iMac with 4 GB of RAM so speed shouldn't > > be an issue. > > > > Have other Mac users had similar experiences with OO and Leopard? > > > > Also, I have played with the alpha for the Aqua version, and even though > > it is still buggy as heck I really look forward to a beta. I understand > > we may see one in a few months? > > > > Les > > Les, > > there's another thread discussing this Leopard / X11 business. There > seems to be a succession of X11 1.2 updates underway to correct > problems that OOo, the Gimp etc. have with running under X11 on > Leopard. > I'm 'looking the cat out of the tree' before buying a new Mac with > Leopard... > > -- > Guy > using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger > and brazilian OOo 2.3 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger > -- please reply only to [email protected] -- > Dodoes can't afford to have headaches > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Louis Solomon (240) 631-2576 Home/Office (301) 613-5776 Cell
