I would guess your real problem is with a lack of available RAM. If you are using Gnome/Enlightenment on a RedHat box it will take up a TON of RAM. Like 25MB-40MB (I don't remember since I saw that I switched back to FVWM2). Then when you fire up a hog like Star Office that sucks another 24MB of RAM: 4447 godber 0 0 24820 24M 19476 1 R 0.0 9.6 0:07 soffice.bin This is just after starting up, I haven't opened any documents or anything. Don't worry about the Java runtime environment. Thats not likely to help any. I think all it does is provide a RE within the star office program so you can execute java programs. And if there was a java version of Star Office (I bet there is or soon to be - i.e. StarPortal) I imagine it would be dreadfully slow. Granted I am just guessing right now. What do I suggest? Either get more RAM (thank goodness prices are reasonable again) or change windows managers, but be forewarned there is a big difference between the gnome/enlightenment experience and the fvwm experience. I say go get 128MB of RAM. You can find it for less than $90 nowadays. On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 02:13:07PM -0700, Joel Dudley wrote: > Does star office run faster when running under Jave in the JRE? I installed > it using the Java-less option and man is it slow. I have a K6-2 300 with 48 > MB of RAM on my linux box and Star Office takes about 2 minutes just to > load up and when I am actually in it is is slower than heck. Got a bit > better when I did hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda, but still not usuable for my > patience today. I got so frustrated I am now going to type my paper in > Office 97 on my Game Machine (please forgive me for my momentary weakness). > Come to think of it my entire Gnome experience has been much slower than I > am used to. I have an 8 meg 3D labs card but Xconfigurator only found it to > have 512 K of RAM I tried to set it manually. Could X perhaps be > underutilizing my card? Maybe I should just get a better Card like a viper > v550, anyone have on for trade/sale? Thanks in advance as always. > > - Joel > > Just realizing my path out of newbiedom just got longer > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Austin Godber godber@asu.edu