Fwd: ”Artifacts” in OpenOffice and LibreOffice

[David Fletcher]

On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 15:04 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> Here's a screenshot with Apache OpenOffice Calc 3.4.1. I added some
> arrows pointing at the problem areas:
> http://ubuntuone.com/0wvqcaN38PC5835t4uJVPv
> 
> The worst thing is when I try to use the Basic IDE, take a look at
> this. Very hard to write and edit code when it looks like this:
> http://ubuntuone.com/4HRPQMpblZT97UxHq5ggzO
> 
> My operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 and the more stuff I run at the
> same time, the worse will it look.
> 

That looks pretty similar to the problems I had when I upgraded to
12.04. At the time I had a low end (~£20) fanless nvidea graphics card
in the PC that had been working just fine for years.

When I replaced it with a low end (~£15 ex VAT) fanless ATI based
graphics card, the problem went away. Can't guarantee this this will
purge your gremlins of course but it won't cost a fortune to find out.

Dave