[ubuntu-uk] Disappearing characters

[Bruce Beardall]

Thanks, Liam, I'll give it a go.

On 9 March 2015 at 19:18, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 March 2015 at 14:35, Bruce Beardall <bruce72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've just recently received my new laptop from PC Specialist, the Lafité
> as
> > they call it (http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafite/).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>
> Do you have the LibreOffice GNOME integration stuff installed?
>
> Try removing it.
>
> I found this made it look a bit old-fashioned and ugly but it worked
> better. Mind, this is on Unity, not Maté. I prefer something a bit
> more modern. ;¬)
>
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