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. Above, and at the following places, is described the whole screen flickering when document not empty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lPas9-DuQ&feature=youtu.be - https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 - https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915 However, my experience is that Abiword flashes from the top edge of the background (below the ruler) to about an inch into the page on the top, and from the left edge of the background to an eigth of an inch into the page on the left. When I zoom in or out on the document, the same area of the screen flickers. This happens even on an empty document. I think this is the same problem - https://askubuntu.com/questions/818219/abiword-documents-borders-keeps-flashing I tried this: for i in `ls /usr/share/themes`; do echo $i; GTK_THEME="$i" abiword; done It was the same for every theme, including Adwaita. Any hope for a fix? -- 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 AbiWord: In Progress Status in abiword package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lubuntu-artwork package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in abiword source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in lubuntu-artwork source package in Xenial: Invalid Bug description: After adding some text in a new document, the entire document (including gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker very fast. The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a different system in VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386) Workaround for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS =============================== 1. Open the Lubuntu menu. 2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel 3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or Lubuntu-dark-panel ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: abiword 3.0.1-6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: abiword UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/abiword/+bug/1574278/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
