Thanks for the bump, I'd forgotten to update this bug. I found the cause of the problem and fixed it for systems using Xorg. It was a race condition, and is affected by speed of computer, speed of graphics, other processes, and theme drawing. That's why it may not happen for some people. You can find my patch in the upstream bug report https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 and my summary at Sugar Labs https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915
I'll be shipping the fix on the laptops we make at One Laptop per Child. However, my fix was not tested on Wayland and caused AbiWord to fail differently under Wayland, and upstream (correctly) refused to accept the patch as is, and nobody seems to have done anything since. I'm not using Wayland, and I'm not paid to support Wayland, so I'm unable to easily work further on the problem. But if any of you really need it to work using Xorg (e.g. Lubuntu), my patch should be fine, and I'm happy to explain what the problem was in detail. Upstream would obviously benefit from someone who can program C++ with GTK+ on both Xorg and Wayland. If this is you, please offer to help them. It has been almost two years since this problem first began, and it is slowly but surely destroying the usability of AbiWord. Sad to see the old girl go. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text Status in AbiWord: In Progress Status in abiword package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lubuntu-artwork package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in abiword source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in lubuntu-artwork source package in Xenial: Invalid Bug description: After adding some text in a new document, the entire document (including gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker very fast. The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a different system in VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386) Workaround for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS =============================== 1. Open the Lubuntu menu. 2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel 3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or Lubuntu-dark-panel ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: abiword 3.0.1-6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: abiword UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/abiword/+bug/1574278/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
