Libreoffice Calc on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE draws gibberish

Jeff Tipton jeff.t at mail.com
Sat Mar 22 19:19:20 UTC 2014


On 03/22/2014 20:33, Warren Block wrote:
> 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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I have cairo-1.10.2_7,2, and that's in sync with the ports. Is it 
possible to get a newer version (1.12.16,2)?


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