Ex-Microsoftie: Free Software Will Kill Redmond (ComputerWorld)

I'm using OOo occasionally under IceWM and I see no such issues. Could you please be more specific? Bug numbers could also help.

> right now I'm experiencing delays that look like random in
> the order of 0 to 1000ms when using "less" or "mc" through
> ssh on a Etch server using a Lenny client (with rxvt terminals
> under Window Maker). Never saw anything like that before, and
> do not even know where to start investigating to fix this
> stupid behaviour.

strace is your friend. Either an interactive trace, or a trace to a file with timestamps (-t -o somefile) .

You may need to use -p to attach to a specific PID and/or -f to follow subprocesses as well.

BTW: do you actually have an Etch system to compare with? Does the same happen on a fresh Lenny install?