Created attachment 46557 [details] Extremely-annoying-display-flickering.odt With several documents in Writer, I encounter a serious flickering problem. It is very annoying as it does not stop for many seconds or even minutes. It makes it simply impossible to work with Writer during that time. Please have a look at the funny video of my screen. You can download the video via following link during the next two weeks: https://www.wetransfer.com/dl.php?code=jUEN1q63&hash=c00c9bc09a8c0f27a15ead4d557612b166a2ad8f9003654c219c1e3c71f316d5b650e9cb9c3eb5 How to reproduce: * Please open attached file in Writer by double clicking on the file. (The file is just an example. The problem is also there with other files). * Click with the mouse in the first heading called "1.Introduction" (the heading just under the TOC) so that you see the cursor there. * Open the format templates with the key F11 and the format template manager will open * Now click on the icon "New" in order to create a new Writer file. * Writer starts to flicker like crazy!! Reproducible: Always System: Ubuntu 10.10/Gnome 2, LibreOffice 3.3.2 PPA, German UI, Intel 32-Bit.
well I can't reproduce this but then again I am testing with the 3.4 Beta4 release, perhaps you could try with that version
@Noel: Sorry I cannot test the Beta, because I need LibreOffice for everyday work. As far as I have seen, LO 3.4Beta overwrites my stable installation and there is no way to have it installed separately like it was possible with OOO-dev. Please see bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36437 Sorry, can anyone else test this bug on a beta version of LO in Ubuntu? Thanks a lot!
Not reproducible with "LibreOffice 3.4Beta4 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [DEV300m103 (Build:4)]", might be Linux related.
adding bjoern to cc ( might have some idea if this is ubuntu specific )
hi guys, Easy to reproduce for me on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity) & 340beta5. - Open existing writer document - if not yet open, start navigator - if not yet docked, dock the navigator - Ctrl-N for new document > main tool bars + navigator toolbar are refreshed several times which is the flickering Now do the same in 3.3.2 > only one fast refresh
(since beta1 and beta2 did not run for me on Ubuntu, I cannot test those)
Can't reproduce around the RC1 vintage on my machine - Bjoern - is there some Ubuntu-ness that might cause this grief: perhaps the Unity menu integration stuff ?
(In reply to comment #7) > Can't reproduce around the RC1 vintage on my machine just tested nightly build 2011-05-17: flickering is gone there
Not reproducable here on libreoffice-3.3.2-1ubuntu5 main (including libreoffice/build patches) on 11.04 with Unity. (In reply to comment #7) > Can't reproduce around the RC1 vintage on my machine - Bjoern - is there some > Ubuntu-ness that might cause this grief: perhaps the Unity menu integration > stuff ? Not that I would think -- no additional vendor patching in that area. Also the original report is on 10.10, which has no Unity Desktop (also the screencast is classic Gnome). Current triage roundup: - observable with 3.3.2 PPA (including libreoffice/build patches) on Ubuntu 10.10 - not observable with 3.3.2 main (including libreoffice/build patches) on Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity - observable on 3.4.0 beta5 (without any vendor patches) on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity) - not observable on 3.4.0-nightly2011-05-17 Seems to me to be a bug introduced by libreoffice/build patches and subsequently fixed. Only my own observation does not fit this theory: if this is a Heisenbug, triaging will be a lot harder.
In LibreOffice 3.4 rc 1, this bug is still there. Extreme flickering like in the previous versions.
(In reply to comment #10) > In LibreOffice 3.4 rc 1, this bug is still there. Extreme flickering like in > the previous versions. Cannot reproduce it - nor the way I did it in a previous version, nor the way you give in your first description.
Tested this again on my computer. In the meanwhile I updated to Ubuntu 11.04, gnome2, and LibreOffice 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu1 from the PPA. The flickering problem is now also gone here. As Cor was the only person who could reproduce the bug in comment 5 and now the issue of flickering is also solved on his computer, I close this bug as resolved WORKSFORME. Thanks for testing and fixing!
@gleppert: thanks for reporting back!
RESOLVED, FIXED or CLOSED bugs cant be KEYWORD NEEDINFO.
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/811dfd7f2706f56119a1943e08d9bce73b0d2203 sw: RTF export: fix assert on fdo37077-1.rtf It will be available in 7.6.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.