Hi everyone, I've just commited a fix for this and other flickering bugs. Please abiword from shn head and let me know how it works. I apologize for taking so long to fix this, cheers Martin Sevior
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 13:56 James Cameron, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the offer. Sorry, I don't have a backport of my patch for > abiword 3.0.1, and haven't estimated the effort. Would you consider > moving Xenial to abiword 3.0.2? > > At One Laptop per Child for our derivative build of Ubuntu with the > Sugar desktop, we've worked around the flickering by setting > GTK_THEME to adwaita in the package sugar-write-activity. This > perturbs the timing just enough to prevent the problem on our > supported hardware. > > For our upcoming Bionic build, the abiword 3.0.2-6 package doesn't > show the problem. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of AbiWord > Stable Builds, which is subscribed to AbiWord. > 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: > Fix Released > Status in abiword source package in Xenial: > Triaged > Status in abiword source package in Zesty: > Won't Fix > Status in abiword package in Debian: > Fix Released > > 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 > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/abiword/+bug/1574278/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
