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Speed up LibreOffice startup and improve graphics peformance

Updated - May 9, 2018 by Arnab Satapathi

This tutorial is outdated, anyway you can continue reading.

Sometimes you may feel Libreoffice is taking longer than expected to start.

No doubt Libreoffice is a bit heavy application, it might take some time to start first time, but it should not be enough to annoy users.

In reality LibreOffice is taking 2-3 seconds to start even after being just closed, and the splash is annoying too.

This LibreOffice slow startup problem was enough to keep me away from it for a long, another reason was it's a GTK+ application, which I don't like much.

So here some simple tweaks to improve libreoffice performance and make it start faster, lets get started ....

1. Increase memory limit and enable systray Quickstarter

LibreOffice doesn't take advantage of additional system memory with the default settings. Open up the Options under the LibreOffice Tools menu, and navigate to the Memory option.

Increase all Graphics Cache related options and check the Enable systray Quickstarter option. Example screenshot below.

speedup_libreoffice_1

The Qucikstarter option will speed LibreOffice startup significantly, almost instantaneous opening without the splash.

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2. Enable OpenGL for graphics rendering

Enabling OpenGL will result in faster rendering of graphics heavy contents, like presentations in LibreOffice Impress.

Open up the LibreOffice Options like before and now navigate to View option.

Check the Use OpenGL for all rendering option and Force OpenGL even if blacklisted option and restart LibreOffice, that's all.

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Here more settings related to the view option, https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/View_2 .

So, I hope now LibreOffice is starting fast and handling graphics heavy documents more easily. Don't forget to share your thoughts and suggestions in the comment section.

Filed Under: how to, tips and tricks Tagged With: LibreOffice, office, speedup

Your comments
  1. Kurt says

    January 30, 2021

    I have Version 7.0.4.2 on Mac OSX 10.11.6
    In order to speed up app's start (which takes 3min. !!!) I cannot apply suggested tips for memory etc. because I have no menu like "tools > options" nor "Tools > Libreoffice > Advanced > Open Expert Configuration".

    Reply
  2. Ant says

    April 11, 2019

    I've updated to version 6.1 and there's no "memory" option available as described 🙁

    Reply
  3. mistercat says

    February 22, 2018

    Today 21 Feb 2018, I download LibreOffice for Windows. The Memory option no longer appears on the menu. I also cannot find any reference to QuickStarter. It still loads slowly so don't tell me I don't need these..

    Reply
    • Arnab Satapathi says

      February 22, 2018

      Are you using LibreOffice 6 series?
      However I'm using the 5 series on Linux, all the options are still there.

      Reply
    • Jessie Zhang says

      May 5, 2018

      Can't find Quickstarter as well under memory. using Version 5.4.6.. any chance it be under expert configuration?

      Reply
    • slowlib says

      May 9, 2018

      Same here.. Could you find a solution?

      Reply
      • JCarlos says

        October 17, 2018

        You should look at "configuration for experts" and then locate the options of cache memory

        Reply
        • cipricus says

          February 15, 2019

          Those are under Tools > Libreoffice > Advanced > Open Expert Configuration. But what is to be done there. Searching "memory" I only find one entry: org.openoffice.Office.common - GrafficManager - FraficMemoryLimit - long, and the value that can be changed is 300000000.

          Is that it?

          Reply
          • M. Elkadimi says

            October 7, 2020

            Thank you for the tip. Expert Configuration solved the problem.
            I also searched Expert Configuration for "memory", and found that GraphicMemoryLimit was set to 3000000. I changed it to 12000000. It's pretty fast now!

  4. Juan says

    December 30, 2017

    Thank you! It made a significant difference!

    Reply
  5. Xerus says

    October 4, 2017

    Thanks, it did improve startup times quite nicely, exactly what i needed!

    Reply

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