When composing a document in Writer, edited text does not refresh properly. Returning to edit text input earlier is especially problematic; all text after the cursor continues to be displayed as it was prior to the edit, and the cursor and new text are often obscured. Simple scrolling upward has the same effect at times. Ctrl-A is a workaround, but this is a very persistent, basic, and severely debilitating bug.
So from what you are saying is that when you make changes in Writer, for example inserting text within a sentence, sometimes the text after the bar/cursor does not shift properly, so the new words and the old words end up being super-imposed on one and another. This also happens with scrolling upward, in which case the words get jumbled up. For now, I cannot seem to see any problems on LibreOffice 3.4 340m1(Build:12). Is it possible for you to capture a screen shot of the problem and submit it as an attachment; it would make the problem much easier to understand. Also, is it possible to find a case in which this would always happen? Thanks!
Created attachment 48613 [details] Screenie as per request Upgraded to 3.3, but issue persists. See attached screenshot of behavior after pasting paragraph #2 above #1 (reversing order).
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
I encountered this problem on Mandriva one year ago. This problem is due videocard driver. In such situation would be very useful function "Refresh screen". Alas, LibreOffice has no such function. @hopson This problem still exist?
Yes, this problem still exist in Libreoffice (Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.11).
Thanks for additional testing. Please, provide information: - reproducible only on one computer or on different? - reproducible only in LibreOffice or in another programs too? - reproducible only in one desktop or on different (i.e. Gnome, KDE, ...)? - used CPU (32 bit or 64) - used video card - used video driver (from distro or self installed) - screenshot of problem
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian