When editing text, insertion or deletion often does not correctly refresh the
display until I force a refresh (by scrolling the window, for example), or
until what appears to be a built-in timer initiates a refresh after a number of
seconds, which I have not been able to time. (The only timer I can identify is
in Options/Load Save/General/Save AutoRecovery Information, which is set to 15
minutes).
Garbage remains on the affected line, to the right of the insertion/deletion
point. Often, the remaining text is truncated so the first character of the
spurious part is only partly displayed.
This bug was posted to Linux Questions and at least one other user, on a
different platform, has noticed the same problem. See
I have also created a LibreOffice bug report at https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49986
In Options/LibreOffice/View, I am using Hardware Acceleration and AntiAliasing
- that is the way LibreOffice was configured at installation time and I have
not changed anything.
Under Fedora 14, using Compiz, I had identical display refresh errors when
editing an OpenOffice Writer document. The fix then was to edit the Compiz
settings, to enable the module ‘Workarounds’. I cannot find any equivalent
option with my current system.
I do not have display rendering issues with any other application.
LibreOffice/About reports:
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
Ver: 3.3.4.1-4.fc15
uname -a reports:
Linux [machine id] 2.6.43.2-6.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 12:53:32 UTC 2012
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Hardware is a Lenovo T61. I am using the proprietary nVidia display driver.