delay in staring wordperfect

[W Seager]

Hi all. I don't know if this has been addressed before, but
I haven't seen it. I'm running wpo2000 on mandrake 7.2
(KDE 2). Generally things work fine but often wordperfect
takes a long time to start. I mean something like a
minute or so (normally starts up in about six seconds).
After the delay the launch 'banner' appears and the
wp window opens. Does anyone know why this delay
happens and how it can be fixed.

Also, while you're listening, wp frequently stops when I'm
loading a file -- there is no error message, wp just disappears
from the screen (and all processes are killed). Any advice
on that too?

TIA,
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W. Seager

[Kevin Juliano]

try loading it with a data cd in your cdrom drive.

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"W Seager" <sea...@home.com> wrote in message news:3a489a1e@cnews...

[James Richard Tyrer]

W Seager wrote:

> Hi all. I don't know if this has been addressed before, but
> I haven't seen it. I'm running wpo2000 on mandrake 7.2
> (KDE 2). Generally things work fine but often wordperfect
> takes a long time to start. I mean something like a
> minute or so (normally starts up in about six seconds).
> After the delay the launch 'banner' appears and the
> wp window opens. Does anyone know why this delay
> happens and how it can be fixed.

Try loading it from an X-term -- the command is "wordperfect" -- and see
if you get any message.

JRT

[Denis Roy]

I've noticed that if you close WP with a few documents open (without
closing them individually first), WP re-opens each one when
re-launched. This takes time, especialy if the open documents need to
be converted from Word. Check that out, and close all your documents
before shutting down WP.

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Denis Roy (MCSE, CNA, MCP)
http://www.natuerx.ca

[W Seager]

Thanks for the suggestions. Here is what happened.

1. having a data cd in the cd drive makes no difference to my problem

2. no messages are given while wp tries to start from console

3. it makes no difference whether or not docs were closed or not closed
in the previous session.

Now the update: the situation got worse: now wp tried to start but
*never* appeared -- at least not within 10 or 15 minutes. Note that
the wp and wine processes are present (you can see them in a
process manager or via ps in the console). Just once I noticed
a curious thing: the mouse pointer must have been in just the right
position and although no wp window was visible a tooltip caption
suddenly appeared! Maybe this is an X problem of some kind (I'm
using XFree 4).

I finally fixed this and the orginial problem with the good
old setupWPO2000 --force command. But this destroys
one's personal settings alas.

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W. Seager