Abiword 3.0.5 - SLOOOOOW Typing Echoing

[mac57mac57]

I have built the MacPort of Abiword 3.0.5 and installed it on my Sorbet Leopard system. It works just fine in that it executes and does everything that you would expect Abiword to do. But... the echoing rate for typing is terribly slow. I can easily "overtype it", where I can type faster than it can echo! This is silliness on a 2.3 GHz G5 DP!

Has anyone else encountered this "slow typing" problem on Abiword 3.0.5, and are there any known solutions?

 

[saxfun]

Yes, me too. Abiword 3.0.5 on 10.5.8.
Unusable. In a linux forum I found a hint about Compiz which slows down abiword . . .

 

[mac57mac57]

The hint suggests disabling Compiz entirely. Is there a straightforward way to do that for the MacPorts environment? I am not at my PowerMac G5, so I can't check if Compiz is part of my MacPorts environment or not.

 

[saxfun]

I th8nk it is Not Part of macports on osx. i tried to disable spell checking but no avail. if I Regeneration correctly there was a Note After Compiling AbiWord regarding libaspell or a different dictionary, I cannot remember. Maybe there is something missing.

 

[mac57mac57]

Yup, I tried that too. I went through every Abiword option and turned off anything that might impact character by character performance, but no improvement. The search continues!

Maybe I will try rebuilding the Abiword port and look for any notes about ... anything!

 

[mac57mac57]

A last thought on this. In the absence of Abiword, if you are looking for a reasonably lightweight word processor for writing emails, minor documents, etc., consider Bean. It is actually very good, and I am falling back to it as my lightweight composition environment.

You can get bean for Mac OS X (Sorbet) Leopard at https://bean-osx.com/Bean.html.

Bean is alive and well, still being maintained and evolved and I use it across most of my Mac OS X / macOS environments.