Bug 135723 - "Dirt" appearing on Writer Documents
Summary: "Dirt" appearing on Writer Documents
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.4.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: low trivial
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2020-08-13 15:35 UTC by wayfinder7@gmail.com
Modified: 2020-09-19 06:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description wayfinder7@gmail.com 2020-08-13 15:35:06 UTC
Description:
I love Libre Office. Awesome.  But the one single thing that's bothered me for ages is the "dirt" that regularly appears on documents and obscures lettering.  It appears as if the typing area is not being properly and regularly refreshed, leaving behind bits of prior character positioning.  The little black specks can halfway cover a current line and make it difficult to read.  

These heavy specs disappear if one scrolls down or up off of that section of page... if the document is long enough.  If not, I've found no way to remove them.  Perhaps a manual or automatic screen refresh (every 5 seconds or so) would help eliminate this issue (or... if possible find out what causes the dirt in the first place).

Thanks for your consideration of this matter... and keep up the excellent work!

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Normal typing in a Writer document
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Actual Results:
Numerous heavy black specs (dirt) appear on the screen, evidently from prior text that is not being properly erased as one scrolls the screen.

Expected Results:
When scrolling the screen, all trace of prior text positioning should be erased and over-written by the current text area.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: Writer
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows 10
OS is 64bit: yes
Comment 1 Timur 2020-08-13 19:18:05 UTC
Please make a screencast, zoomed sufficiently to see the issue. 
To be sure, please also test dev master from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html
Comment 2 BogdanB 2020-08-14 17:55:56 UTC
Also you can try to reset user profile:
 Go to Help - Restart in Safe Mode - Factory Settings.

If this problem still happened please come here online on this bug and let us a comment.
Comment 3 wayfinder7@gmail.com 2020-09-18 23:50:41 UTC
I followed the patient and respectful email request from Bogdan to reset my Libre Office settings.  That seems to have cleared up this problem; I have not noticed the "black smudges" since.  Thank you for your assistance Bogdan. Best wishes to the team.  Awesome software.
Comment 4 Timur 2020-09-19 06:46:18 UTC
Technically, WFM is when there was a confirmed bug, which is not the case here, this is NotaBug. 
As reporter may see, that's why we have User Profile Reset:  question in the report, to do it before submitting.
Comment 5 BogdanB 2020-09-19 06:50:04 UTC
Ok, Timur.
Thanks for clarification.