Libreoffice Calc on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE draws gibberish

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Mar 22 18:33:51 UTC 2014


On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Jeff Tipton wrote:
> On 03/22/2014 18:03, Warren Block wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW, LibreOffice 4.1.5_1 works here with various newer Radeons, and I've 
>> never seen a scrolling problem with it.
>> 
>> I don't use it much, though.  Is there an easy way to replicate the 
>> problem, like scrolling in a blank spreadsheet?

> Yes, I think it can be easily reproduced.
>
> 1. I have a 9.1-RELEASE on another partition of the same machine with 
> LibreOffice 3.5.6, and there's no problem at all.
>
> On 10.0-RELEASE, LibreOffice 4.1.5_1:
> 1. I don't see any problem with Writer so far;
>
> 2. In Calc, no problem as long I don't use mouse;
>
> 3. No problem if I scroll a blank spreadsheet vertically or horizontally;
>
> 4. Suffice it to write just one character in one cell, click with a mouse on 
> another, cell and start scrolling.
>
> Then the character is no longer displayed (although it's there -- it can be 
> seen on the Input line, if I click back on the cell I entered it). If I start 
> scrolling vertically, many tooltips show up with row numbers in one column 
> next to the vertical scroll bar. If I then start also scrolling horizontally, 
> the tooltip column is multiplied all across the spreadsheet area. If I switch 
> to another program and back, the spreadsheet area becomes either light-grey 
> or filled with the content of that program.

It works fine here.  That sounds a lot like the Firefox problem that 
improved with the new version of graphics/cairo, 1.12.16,2.  What 
version do you have?


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