Improve OpenOffice.org Performance

OpenOffice.org is an office suite software for GNU/Linux. Many GNU/Linux distributions include this software by default. We may say that this is the most popular office suite in GNU/Linux distributions. But, many people say that this software is slow, not responsive, and its loading time takes too many times. Maybe it's all right, this is because OpenOffice.org is configured to work in low resource system. If you have a gig of RAM or more, high end processor, the best VGA card, you can tweak this software to improve its performance. This article will show you how to do this tweak. Keep reading.

Let's start by opening OpenOffice.org Writer, this is the word processor of this suite. From the main window, follow the step below.

1. Go to the Tools menu then select Options to open OpenOffice.org Options dialog.
   
2. Now the dialog is opened, we see it is divided in two panel. On the left panel we see options which we can configure, on the rigth panel is the value of an options selected on the left panel.
3. Highlight Memory on the left panel to open its value on the right panel. You need to tweak the default setting to get the best performance. First reduce the Number of steps under Undo to 20 or 30 (less than 100), second increase the amount of memory Use For OpenOffice.org to 128MB, next set Memory per object to 20MB, the last one set The number of objects under Cache for inserted objects to 20, do not forget to check Enable systray Quicstarter under OpenOffice.org Quickstarter.
   
4. Highlight Java on the left panel, uncheck Use a Java runtime environment.
   
5. Click OK button on the Options dialog.
6. Close OpenOffice.org then start it again and feel the new performance.