[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

** No longer affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu Xenial) ** Also affects: abiword (Ubuntu Artful) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Also affects:

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Sorry Simon, I had already tested my patch with my own local package, I didn't think you'd need me to test your package of it, and I'm hoping to hear if anybody else has tested it. ;-) On a 17.10 Artful VM with Sugar, the Sugar desktop does not appear, some other problem, so I'm not able to test

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Ok, did you get a chance to test it or did you just review the diff? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Thanks. Reviewed abiword_3.0.2-3_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1.diff.gz ... looks right to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Since Wayland is not supported by Lubuntu, the only flavor that ships it by default, and stock Ubuntu has their own replacement, I'm willing to have this fix in Ubuntu. I uploaded a fix to ppa:tsimonq2/universe-upload-testing. It would be great if someone could test it and if it works, I'll

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Thanks for the bump, I'd forgotten to update this bug. I found the cause of the problem and fixed it for systems using Xorg. It was a race condition, and is affected by speed of computer, speed of graphics, other processes, and theme drawing. That's why it may not happen for some people. You

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Used the same test that Sondra on #43 and also with no luck on any theme Lubuntu 17.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering Also for me it did not solve the problem on Lubuntu Artful 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering Does not solve for me on Artful 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Confirm the bug with the dafault Xubuntu theme. $ env GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title:

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Note the flashing/flickering effect in the YouTube video "Lubuntu 17.10 Alpha 2 Stable As Ever" at 3'44". https://youtu.be/3tKVjBCA_Nw -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Your observation on the visual effects is likely the same as mine which I reported as bug #1649001. However this was considered as a duplicate of #1574278. Focuswriter or LibreOffice Writer can be installed as suitable alternatives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

I experienced this bug in Lubuntu 16.04, and found it made Abiword unusable. I recently installed Lubuntu 17.04 on a different computer and was disappointed to discover the bug is still present with my fresh installation! That said, I'm not 100% sure my bug is the same as what is reported here.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Maybe I did not mess it up then. I would agree that the warnings I saw were all non-critical, and it did complete. I am using MATE 17.04 64 bit., gtk 3.22 and is about exactly as Henk explains above. I can also confirm that changing the theme makes no difference for me, and I believe now that the

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

I have experienced that Abiword cannot be used on plain Debian Stretch, Lubuntu 17.04 and Xubuntu 17.04, all using gtk-3.22. Heavy flickering or moving of paper borders occurs, which stops, together with disappearing cursor, after about 8 seconds without activity. Changing the theme does not have

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

G'day Brian. Good to hear. For local testing, the signing can be ignored; there's an option to skip it. The warnings sound familiar, but are normal. For me, the patch did fix the flickering of the whole screen, but did not fix the flickering cursor. Guess next steps upstream involve reproducing

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

@James- Thanks for all the help. I went through the steps and in the end, nothing was any different. I was at least able to learn some of the steps used here which I really appreciate. I did not see anything too unusual... there was an error on not being able to sign in the end and many warnings

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

G'day Brian. The patch command automatically applies a patch to a set of files. The particular patch has a sacrificial path element so the --strip 1 option should be used. The --dry-run option is also useful for testing. So it would be "patch --strip 1 --dry-run < file.patch", where file.patch

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

@James- Thanks, I can do the compile and build easy enough. Only question I have then is for the patch, is there an automated way to apply it to the file? I do not have experience in applying changes in this manner, but I can always just change the code. Just hoping to learn more here so I can

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

G'day Brian. Yes, it needs to be compiled in. Download the Ubuntu source package, apply the patch, build the package, then install it. If you've not done that before, you may find it quite complicated. You might enable deb-src entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then "apt-get update",

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

@James- I am sorry, but could you provide a bit of direction on applying that fix? I understand the + and - aspect, but unsure of where/how to apply that. My install was just done through package manager, I wonder if this fix needs to be compiled in? -- You received this bug notification because

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

thank you James. I will have a look. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text Status in

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

G'day Brian! Yes, the theme workaround began not working for me with 17.04. Yes, the problem can come and go with any changes to the hardware, kernel, X server, or libraries. There is a fix that makes the situation a lot better, see my post last week on the upstream bug

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

I am running Ubuntu Zesty 17.04 and have this flickering issue. The above fix of changing the theme does nothing to correct the issue. I was using 16.10 prior and did not have this problem. Only after the upgrade did this start to happen. Is there any update on a possible fix for this? -- You

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

I'm reopening the Abiword task since there is apparently a flickering problem with abiword on Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha (using GTK 3.22) and one of the developers pointed back to this bug. http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13815#c24 ** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid =>

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

add to grub, radeon.dpm=1, according to this link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#Testing_the_driver makes flickering slower but it does not stop. GLX version 1.4 and AMD RV710 I changed grub as xorg used high cpu, when opening abi documents. -- You received this bug

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

** Changed in: abiword Status: Invalid => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Uwe, do you have a method to reproduce flickering with the GTK_THEME=adwaita? Even so, the workaround is a major improvement, and the best we have, so I'll add it to my OLPC derivative of the Ubuntu sugar-write-activity package. http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/y/1bkIWb.txt -- You received this

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

I wrote: I can confirm [...] the effectiveness of the work-around "GTK_THEME=adwaita abiword". With some more testing I have to qualify that statement a bit: With the adwaita theme the behaviour is clearly improved compared to the default. I have not seen text flickering so far. But the cursor

Re: [Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Yes, but we can't force an app to use a custom theme, modifying all Ubuntu distros as a workaround, instead of actually fixing the problem. Apps must use any theme. On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:51 Uwe Geuder, wrote: > Using Xubuntu 16.04 with all updates here. > > I can

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Using Xubuntu 16.04 with all updates here. I can confirm both the original flickering and the effectiveness of the work-around "GTK_THEME=adwaita abiword". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

According to upstream bug, it's a gtk 3.18 bug which Abiword triggered. An update to 3.20 fix the issue, which is the case on yakkety. To fix the bug on 16.04, we have to find the correct gtk fix (which may not be that easy). ** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided