[ubuntu-uk] Disappearing characters

[Alan Lord]

On 09/03/15 13:35, Bruce Beardall wrote:

> For the most part, I'm quite happy, 14.10 runs quite smoothly and Unity
> handles the HD display but I've noticed when typing on LibreOffice
> Writer, characters disappear. That is to say, that although they're
> still there, they don't show on the page. Selecting all and changing the
> font makes them visible again but at this point no particular font seems
> immune. I haven't yet noticed this happening in any other program which
> includes writing. Also, it doesn't happen all the time.

I see this mostly in LibreOffice but also sometimes in Thunderbird too.

I find if you scroll the page back and forward out of the viewport they 
come back :-)

I'm using a fairly old Samsung R320 laptop - I don't recall having this 
issue before 14.10 but I could be wrong. I'm also using the metacity 
fallback window manager after Unity lost all it's settings and the 
launcher failed to display twice. After spending ages fixing it the 
first time I gave up.

I assumed it was a dodgy graphics driver or something similar but it 
doesn't bother me enough to worry about or try and write a bug report...

Al