Bug 57814

Summary:	most of the menus are half visible or not visible
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Tazir <tazir>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.6.4.3 release
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://launchpad.net/bugs/1116658 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62480
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Attachments:	Showcase

Description Tazir 2012-12-02 19:05:39 UTC

Default libreoffice with ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 - most of the menus under libreoffice are half visible or not visible ( a "_" is visible in place of most menus and options under it).
LibreOffice 3.5 and 3.6.0.1
Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04

http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/1429/libreoffice-3512-menu-problem/

Comment 1 Tazir 2012-12-02 19:08:18 UTC

Created attachment 70940 [details]
Showcase

Comment 2 Rob Snelders 2012-12-02 19:19:32 UTC

Set this bug to Bjoern. He is the maintainer for LibreOffice in Ubuntu. Maybe he knows the problem.

Comment 3 Adolfo Jayme 2013-01-22 10:05:13 UTC

While I have never experienced this problem with LibreOffice under Ubuntu, I have an idea. You seem to be using Arial, a MS proprietary font, as your UI font. I have observed that these fonts disappear from the UI if I don't give proper permissions to the font files. You may want to check file permissions with your file manager.

Comment 4 Pierre Ossman 2013-05-07 11:16:00 UTC

Also seeing this in ThinLinc (a VNC server) in multiple versions:

 - SLED 11: 3.6.5.2.15
 - Fedora 18: 3.6.6.2
 - Fedora 19: 4.0.3.3

So it seems to be a general bug rather than something distribution specific.

Looking at the behaviour, it looks a bit like there is a race going on between the code filling out the menu, and the code blitting it to the X server. Opening the menu will randomly get some of the entries. Compositing (e.g. gnome 3) also solves the problem.

Comment 5 Pierre Ossman 2013-05-07 11:20:52 UTC

Also happens with Fedora's bundled TigerVNC server.

Comment 6 Pierre Ossman 2013-05-07 13:01:28 UTC

Turned out to be a VNC issue in our/TigerVNC's case. The "Glyphs" XRENDER operation is no longer built on top of the "Composite" operation, so change tracking was off. Fixed upstream. Sorry for the noise.

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