On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:19, Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2002, Kimi Adams wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that when I launch Open Office, from the favorites menu,
> > it takes a minute or two or more to get past the opening logo screen.
> > THEN as if it's not bad enough, it either just stops opening after the
> > logo screen goes away or when it actually opens the program, the cursor
> > stops blinking and it suddenly closes within the first few seconds of
> > being open.
> > 
> > I have not researched this issue, but I have talked to two other people
> > that say it seems like a bad install or that maybe resources are messing
> > with it.
> 
> 
> No suggestions. I run OO on all of my desktop and laptop machines, Win and 
> RH. The behavior you describe only occurs on my RH 7.3 workstation(no 
> other Linux installs) but not on my Win machines. All can be slow to 
> start, although it can be preloaded on Win. I may look into the RH8 rpm as 
> mentioned to see if it runs better.
> 
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I believe OO on RH 8 is compiled with gcc 3.2

Craig