2013/5/11 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org>: > > I have had subtle redraw issues with OO off and on, and I always blamed it > on an interaction between applications and the video drivers. Realize that I > use nVidia video cards on 64-bit Fedora using the proprietary video drivers. > What I saw was not remotely as bad. Admittedly, when I tried out the latest > dev build, it was totally unusable (of course, the single tester was unable > to reproduce on Windows 7). > > see https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122214 > > Are you able to do a test and change your video driver say between the free > and not free driver to see if there is a change (I do not use Ubuntu so I > don't have a good handle on what drivers are available or how). > > I used to have exactly the same problem in QT, and it was very bad. I was > able to avoid the problem with QT Creator by starting it using > > -graphicssystem raster > > Not that I expect this to help you. I did notice that it still has some > rendering issues that appeared in the latest versions (I believe it is > related to an over-lay issue when you edit a field.... that assumption > allowed me to fix it in the software that I write, but I did not jump into > the QT code base). > > I have seen strange redraw issues so long in OO that correcting for it is > almost automatic in my brain (scroll screen up then down to clear) so I > cannot even say if I still see the problem. I think I do, but it is for sure > not as bad is it used to be for me. > > I know, that I have rambled on and on.... I will summarize in saying > > 1. I have never seen it so bad > 2. I have seen screen corruption > 3. You may avoid some of it based on the video driver > > If I had it that bad on my Fedora system, I would likely change my desktop > on login to see if it helped. With Fedora, I can easily jump between Gnome > and KDE (as one example). I would also try jumping between the two different > drivers available to see how that helped as well. Sadly, the "free" driver > is poor with respect to 3D stuff.
Thanks for your input, and also thanks to all of you who replied. I did some more tests and I found that it seems to be a problem related to the fact that my graphics card is blacklisted for use with Unity 3D. First I installed KDE, just to see what happens. I wasn't sure what package to install, so I installed kde-full, which maybe was a bit overkill… I logged out and then in to KDE, configured the driver to use both screens, then I opened a spreadsheet. Oddly enough, it tried to open the file with an archive manager, so I had to manually tell it to open with OpenOffice. I then opened the Basic IDE window and I found no problems what so ever, except that I don't like KDE, but that's another question… I didn't try the free driver, but maybe I will later. Right now I am logged in to Unity 2D and that also works flawlessly. I don't like Unity 2D either, though. I miss some Compiz effects, among other things… Maybe I just have to live with it until I buy another computer with a non-blacklisted graphics card… Johnny Rosenberg > > > > On 05/11/2013 08:52 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> >> I have had this problem for quite some time now (months if not years) >> in LibreOffice and OpenOffice. The problems are maybe a little bit >> worse in LibreOffice, but I didn't exactly measure it… >> >> It looks like a graphics card problem, but why are nothing else >> affected? It only happens to OpenOffice and LibreOffice. I tested a >> few versions and it seems to not matter. The screenshots are taken >> with Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 and I saw the same thing in LibreOffice >> 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0. I think this also happened with earlier LibreOffice >> versions, like 3.4 and 3.3. I didn't use OpenOffice since 3.2 (except >> 3.4.1, which I use these days), and I don't even remember what it >> looked like. >> >> Here's a screenshot with Apache OpenOffice Calc 3.4.1. I added some >> arrows pointing at the problem areas: >> http://ubuntuone.com/0wvqcaN38PC5835t4uJVPv >> >> The worst thing is when I try to use the Basic IDE, take a look at >> this. Very hard to write and edit code when it looks like this: >> http://ubuntuone.com/4HRPQMpblZT97UxHq5ggzO >> >> My operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 and the more stuff I run at the >> same time, the worse will it look. >> >> My graphics card is the nVidia GeForce Go 7300, which is blacklisted >> for use with the Unity 3D desktop, so that may be what's causing this >> problem, but still it ONLY happens to LibreOffice and OpenOffice. >> >> One thought that I have is that LibreOffice and OpenOffice are not GTK >> applications (I think – are they?), but on the other hand, neither is >> my web browser (Opera), and I don't have these problems with it. >> >> Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org were installed with the official >> deb files. The LibreOffice version that came with Ubuntu 12.04 was >> carefully removed before installing what I have now. >> >> Thoughts? Anyone else saw this? >> >> Packard Bell Easy Note MX66 laptop, made in November 2006. >> 2.0 GiB RAM, Genuine Intel® CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz × 2. >> >> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32 bits) >> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-41-generic-pae >> >> nVIDIA Driver Version: 304.88 >> > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
