Peter, While reading over this thread, it reminded me of a similar situation I've had. The problem was the theme widget I had selected. Changing the theme widget fixed it. You might try that, if you haven't yet. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 24, 2014 12:58 PM, "Peter Hillier-Brook" <<a href="mailto:phb@hbsys.plus.com">phb@hbsys.plus.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>