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rpowersau at gmail.com rpowersau at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 04:47:09 UTC 2005


On 9/27/05, Andy Choens <gunksta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the package I currently love to hate.
>
> I really need to get it to work fully, and it's just NOT cooperating.
>
> I've got two problems. I'll accept help on either one, but I think you'll
> be able to tell which is more important.
>
> I'm running an up-to-date breezy amd-64.
>
> 1) HELP! I need to use base. I also need to be able to use several of the
> other JAVA ONLY functions, so I really need to get this going. I am running
> breezy. I started with Colony 4, and have upgraded at every opportunity. I
> have the Blackdown 1.4.2 installed. I also have gij installed. OOo sortof
> recognizes Blackdown. When I start OOo, javadlx starts running Java, and
> Java takes about 1.2 Gb of virtual memory. Eventually (10-15 seconds) this
> ends, and OOo, starts up. But, if I try to use any of the Java
> functionality, I can't. So, I looked in Tools -> Options -> Java. It's
> marked to use the installed JRE, but there is nothing listed for about 30
> seconds. The screen even freezes up. Other programs seem relatively
> unaffected. I can use the Java functionality but it is . . . s . . . . l . .
> . . o . . . . .w . . . . I started base and then tried to use the wizard. It
> took almost 20 seconds to get the wizard started. This machine is clocked @
> 2 Ghz. No way do I believe that takes that long! I doesn't on my old crappy
> 32 bit laptop with the same version of Java! How can I make this run
> accpetably? Can I switch it to using the gij? If so, how? A friend has the
> 32-bit breezy installed and her's uses gij, but I can't get mine to recogniz


Is it listed under tools-options-java?

Have you selected it as the default?

it. Her computer's stuff is running very well.
>
>
> 2) I just got upgraded to 1.129, and now OOo isn't using the GNOME theme
> anymore. I logged out and back in. No change. This is hardly the end of the
> world, but it was a rather odd regression.
>
> --andy
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Regards,
Russ
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