I had the same problem, but fixed today after installing the libreoffice metapackage.
I suspect it was either libreoffice-gtk or libreoffice-gnome which did the trick. -- 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/1317043 Title: Libreoffice screen rendering is broken Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Using Libreoffice 4.2.3 from the Xbuntu repositories on 14.04 64bit. Nvidia proprietary driver 331.67 When resizing a writer window, the rendering in the window is competently broken, showing artifacts from window borders but not the text. Further resize attempts do not change the contents of the window. Sometimes Writer windows come up without any decoration at all. Toggling hardware acceleration in the preferences does not change this behavior. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: libreoffice 1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 3.15.0-031500rc2-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed May 7 13:11:29 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-24 (12 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2) SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1317043/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

