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Chapter 8, Desktop Programs
#55 Reduce OpenOffice.org Startup Time
HACK
The OOQSTART-GNOME of Antiquity
A similar hack is available that preloads some of OpenOffice.org and then
places an icon on your GNOME panel. It is called ooqstart-gnome, and it
was written by Kumaran Santhanam. If it works at all for your Linux distri-
bution, it works basically the same way oooqs works. You right-click the
icon to launch any of the OpenOffice.org applications quickly, avoiding the
typically long startup times.
The problem is that this utility has remained basically unchanged since
2002, which makes its usefulness and compatibility questionable. It seems
to work well with Debian, even the unstable branch, which has the most up-
to-date software (for Debian, anyway). Debian users can install the program
with this command:
# apt-get install ooqstart-gnome
You can also find an RPM package of ooqstart-gnome at http://sourceforge.net/
project/showfiles.php?group_id=47895. When I tried to install it in Fedora Core
2, the installer complained about unmet dependencies. I took the dangerous
path and forced RPM to ignore package dependencies, using this command:
# rpm -i --nodeps ooqstart-gnome-0.8.3-1.i386.rpm
Surprisingly, it installed and worked fine. Then I tried the same thing with
Fedora Core 3, the latest version. It didn’t work at all. (What did work, mys-
teriously enough, was the KDE oooqs program. It appeared ...