LibreOffice under Lubuntu

[Israel]

On 09/24/2014 03:18 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> On 9/24/2014 3:57 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I've encountered a problem with running LibreOffice (4.4.0.x) on a fresh
>> installation of Lubuntu 14.04, in that text only paints as the mouse
>> moves over it and mainly, but not always disappears as the mouse moves
>> away. My machine is only an old toy (Pentium III) so this is not a
>> serious problem, but I would like to understand it.
>>
>> Any thoughts, anyone.
>>
>> Peter HB
>
> A shot in the dark, but I encountered some odd effects vaguely like
> that on a machine with a video card that was not fully supported
> anymore.  In short, this could be a video driver issue.  But if so I
> think it likely that you would see some other effects outside of
> LibreOffice as well.  If such things *only* occur in LibreOffice, then
> the cause is probably elsewhere.
>
Hi Peter,
I agree with John, it sounds like a graphics card issue.  Did you
install LibreOffice through the normal channels?
I too am running 14.04.
When I run:
apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
I get:
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1
So I have 4.2 rather than 4.4  so You may have a strange version installed.
I suggest installing Libreoffice from the repos.
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
or find it in your graphics package manager of choice.

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