Bug#836531: libreoffice-gtk3: LibreOffice is unusable slow with XFCE4

[Andreas Brogle <anbro@ok.de>]

Am Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:45:35 +0200
schrieb Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>:

Hello Rene,

thank you for your fast resonse.

This problem is not as easy as you describe it.
For a "normal" user it is very difficult to find it out. Since a system
uprade libreoffice is unusable slow. What would you think what is the
reason for? It took me a long time to realize it is a libreoffice-xfce
problem. I searched the internet up and down and couldn't find any hint.
How shall I convince others, especially my wife and daughter, to use
libreoffice instead of Microsoft Office if they tell me they don't like
it, because it is slow?

What is my suggestion?
I assume there is some kind of mechanism of libreoffice to detect the
environment it is running in. Would it be a great thing to say
libreoffice to use -gtk2 if running under xfce and to forbid to use
-gtk3? I can't imagine that would need more than minimal efford.


Best Regards,
Andreas