As a tempory workaround, I discovered that when I disabled the following 3 settings the problem stopped:
In the User Interface section: - "Screen font antialiasing" In the Graphics output section: - "Use hardware acceleration" - "Use Anti-Antialiasing" You can access all these settings via: Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1118946 Title: LoWriter: Text disappears when scrolling Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Incomplete Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Open libreoffice-writer 2. Start a new document 3. Write a couple of lines of text, e.g. Test Test123 4. Scroll down Result: Some of the text disappears, might reappear when clicking with left mouse button. This is a new install on a somewhat recent desktop machine. Please advise if you need further details. Additional information: I attached a screenshot taken from a test file: all lines should contain the example text. It is not shown for some of the lines, some are rendered only partially lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:3.6.2~rc2-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Feb 8 10:08:15 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-15 (23 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1118946/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp