Libre office writer is really slow

edit

For me, disabling the OPENGL worked.

Uncheck Tools/Options/Libre Office/View/Use OpenGL for all rendering

To address one of the prevalent issues, here... Since LO 5, I have invariably had trouble with dragging and dropping multi-lines of text within the same document - it would just hang before reaching the target. Today, I discovered that doing this makes it function perfectly again: go to

Tools > Options > Libreoffice Writer > View

and uncheck 'smooth scroll'

It fixes that issue entirely. For the first time in three years, drag & drop works correctly; and I believe the scrolling is now 'smoother' as well. Go figure...

I've had the same problem. But it also happened with V 5.2.4.2.

This sounds similar to what I have documented here. I've seen various work arounds posted, but none have worked for me.

Same problem but running CentOS 7. If I scroll my document the display of the pages lags by seconds. I have not seen minutes delay but it's unworkable.

Version: 5.3.4.2 Build ID: f82d347ccc0be322489bf7da61d7e4ad13fe2ff3 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 3.10; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; Layout Engine: new; Locale: en-US (C); Calc: group

The previous version was OK:

Version: 5.2.4.2 Build ID: 3d5603e1122f0f102b62521720ab13a38a4e0eb0 CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 3.10; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (C); Calc: group

So my workaround is to stay with 5.2.4.2.

This worked for me. If you do a custom install instead of the typical try uninstalling then reinstall using the typical option. That may clear it up. If not everything i did was uninstalled x64 custom install; installed x86 typical install; uninstalled; installed x64 typical. Was like night and day in performance. Seems either something doesn't get installed or the ui is looking for something in the languages i had unchecked for a leaner install.

Going to Tools > Options > Libreoffice Writer > View and disablying "smooth scroll" made Libreoffice runs much faster for me.