When copying and pasting cells, the dashed line animation drawn around selected cells uses 100% CPU (on one core) and makes the application so slow it's virtually unusable. Pressing the escape key to clear the animation works, but it can take 30 seconds to a minute before the application responds to the keypress. I have experienced this bug for a long time (in OpenOffice too) and on two different Linux distributions. The only thing in common between the two is the x86-64 CPU architecture, use of the nVidia proprietary X11 driver, Xinerama mode, and the spreadsheet being maximised at a resolution of 2560x1600. Resizing the window to 1024x768 seems to make the problem go away, except then of course you can't see most of the spreadsheet :-) Disabling text and graphic animations in the accessibility options doesn't stop the dashed line from animating and thus doesn't provide a workaround for the problem.
I have the same issue, I'm working with a dual monitor, and making a copy and paste using the mouse takes about 3 minutes and makes X consume one of the two cores I have on my computer.(In reply to comment #0)
Same issue here. I too use multiple monitors with xinerama. On fedora 15 x86_64, with kmod-nvidia drivers.
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I just tried this with 3.5.0 beta 2 and it works fine now, but going back to 3.4.4 also works fine - so I'm not sure whether this bug has been fixed some time back or whether an nVidia driver upgrade has fixed it instead. For the record I tested with nVidia 290.10. LOdev 3.5.0beta2 Build ID: c3bcb31-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978