[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[msevior]

Hi everyone,
I've just commited a fix for this and other flickering bugs. Please abiword
from shn head and let me know how it works. I apologize for taking so long
to fix this, cheers
Martin Sevior

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 13:56 James Cameron, <1574...@bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for the offer.  Sorry, I don't have a backport of my patch for
> abiword 3.0.1, and haven't estimated the effort.  Would you consider
> moving Xenial to abiword 3.0.2?
>
> At One Laptop per Child for our derivative build of Ubuntu with the
> Sugar desktop, we've worked around the flickering by setting
> GTK_THEME to adwaita in the package sugar-write-activity.  This
> perturbs the timing just enough to prevent the problem on our
> supported hardware.
>
> For our upcoming Bionic build, the abiword 3.0.2-6 package doesn't
> show the problem.
>
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> Title:
>   AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text
>
> Status in AbiWord:
>   In Progress
> Status in abiword package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in abiword source package in Xenial:
>   Triaged
> Status in abiword source package in Zesty:
>   Won't Fix
> Status in abiword package in Debian:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   After adding some text in a new document, the entire document
>   (including gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker
>   very fast. The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a
>   different system in VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386)
>
>   Workaround for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>   ===
>   1. Open the Lubuntu menu.
>   2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel
>   3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or
> Lubuntu-dark-panel
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: abiword 3.0.1-6
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: i386
>   CurrentDesktop: LXDE
>   Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016
>   ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386
> (20151021)
>   ProcEnviron:
>LANGUAGE=de_DE
>PATH=(custom, no user)
>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
>LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: abiword
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
>
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Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Thanks for the offer.  Sorry, I don't have a backport of my patch for
abiword 3.0.1, and haven't estimated the effort.  Would you consider
moving Xenial to abiword 3.0.2?

At One Laptop per Child for our derivative build of Ubuntu with the
Sugar desktop, we've worked around the flickering by setting
GTK_THEME to adwaita in the package sugar-write-activity.  This
perturbs the timing just enough to prevent the problem on our
supported hardware.

For our upcoming Bionic build, the abiword 3.0.2-6 package doesn't
show the problem.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

So after attempting to apply this patch, it seems like the code here is
totally different.

James, do you have a patch that can cleanly apply to the abiword in
Xenial?

For now, I'll reassign this to you. If you aren't willing to do this,
that's perfectly fine, just unassign it. :)

If you get a fix that cleanly applies to Xenial, you can reassign to me.

Thanks!

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) => James Cameron (quozl)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

Sorry for the delay, I'm working on getting this in Xenial now.

Thanks.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
 Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) => (unassigned)

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Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Any chance of a fix in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial?

As a derivative, I'm carrying a custom package, which is fine
technically, but is hard to explain.

Ubuntu 18.04 beta is unaffected.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Jeremy Bicha]

Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty" will be End of Life this week. Please upgrade to
Ubuntu 17.10 or stick with LTS releases if you don't want to be forced
to upgrade regularly.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) => Junko Wakata (tugumimi)

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Junko Wakata (tugumimi) => (unassigned)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[oscar]

Hi, any chance to see this patch applied on Zeisty?


Thanks in advance

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[sudodus]

Thanks for squashing this bug :-)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Henk Terhell]

Also I can confirm this annoying flashing has gone on Lubuntu 17.10. 
Great!

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** No longer affects: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** Changed in: abiword (Debian)
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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #851052
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851052

** Also affects: abiword (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851052
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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This bug was fixed in the package abiword - 3.0.2-3ubuntu1

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abiword (3.0.2-3ubuntu1) artful; urgency=high

  * Fix flickering (LP: #1574278).

 -- Simon Quigley   Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:52:22 -0500

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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Uploaded to Artful, I can confirm it fixes the problem. I'll upload
packages to test this in my PPA before Monday.

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)
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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

** No longer affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)

** No longer affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)

** No longer affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu Xenial)

** Also affects: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: High
   Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: In Progress => Confirmed

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Artful)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Sorry Simon, I had already tested my patch with my own local package, I
didn't think you'd need me to test your package of it, and I'm hoping to
hear if anybody else has tested it.  ;-)

On a 17.10 Artful VM with Sugar, the Sugar desktop does not appear, some
other problem, so I'm not able to test there yet.

On a 17.04 Zesty VM with Sugar, installed your
libabiword-3.0_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1_amd64.deb and the flickering problem
has gone.  So your package works for me there.

Any chance of a 16.04 Xenial update?  A "gir1.2-abi-3.0 breaks
gir1.2-abiword-3.0" problem occurs, easily explained.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

Ok, did you get a chance to test it or did you just review the diff?

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Thanks.  Reviewed abiword_3.0.2-3_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1.diff.gz ... looks
right to me.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Simon Quigley]

Since Wayland is not supported by Lubuntu, the only flavor that ships it
by default, and stock Ubuntu has their own replacement, I'm willing to
have this fix in Ubuntu.

I uploaded a fix to ppa:tsimonq2/universe-upload-testing. It would be
great if someone could test it and if it works, I'll upload it.

Here's the diff:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/338474460/abiword_3.0.2-3_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1.diff.gz

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Thanks for the bump, I'd forgotten to update this bug.

I found the cause of the problem and fixed it for systems using Xorg.
It was a race condition, and is affected by speed of computer, speed of
graphics, other processes, and theme drawing.  That's why it may not
happen for some people.  You can find my patch in the upstream bug
report https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 and my
summary at Sugar Labs https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915

I'll be shipping the fix on the laptops we make at One Laptop per Child.

However, my fix was not tested on Wayland and caused AbiWord to fail
differently under Wayland, and upstream (correctly) refused to accept
the patch as is, and nobody seems to have done anything since.

I'm not using Wayland, and I'm not paid to support Wayland, so I'm
unable to easily work further on the problem.

But if any of you really need it to work using Xorg (e.g. Lubuntu), my
patch should be fine, and I'm happy to explain what the problem was in
detail.

Upstream would obviously benefit from someone who can program C++ with
GTK+ on both Xorg and Wayland.  If this is you, please offer to help
them.  It has been almost two years since this problem first began, and
it is slowly but surely destroying the usability of AbiWord.  Sad to see
the old girl go.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[oscar]

Used the same test that Sondra on #43 and also with no luck on any theme

Lubuntu 17.04

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Henk Terhell]

> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering

Also for me it did not solve the problem on Lubuntu Artful 17.10.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering

Does not solve for me on Artful 17.10.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Mikhail N]

Confirm the bug with the dafault Xubuntu theme.
$ env GTK_THEME=Abiword
solves the problem, no more flickering

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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Note the flashing/flickering effect in the YouTube video "Lubuntu 17.10 Alpha 2 
Stable As Ever" at 3'44".
https://youtu.be/3tKVjBCA_Nw

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Henk Terhell]

Your observation on the visual effects is likely the same as mine which I 
reported as bug #1649001. However this was considered as a duplicate of 
#1574278. 
Focuswriter or LibreOffice Writer can be installed as suitable alternatives.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Sondra Kinsey]

I experienced this bug in Lubuntu 16.04, and found it made Abiword
unusable. I recently installed Lubuntu 17.04 on a different computer and
was disappointed to discover the bug is still present with my fresh
installation!

That said, I'm not 100% sure my bug is the same as what is reported here. 
Above, and at the following places, is described the whole screen flickering 
when document not empty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lPas9-DuQ=youtu.be
- https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791
- https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915

However, my experience is that Abiword flashes from the top edge of the
background (below the ruler) to about an inch into the page on the top,
and from the left edge of the background to an eigth of an inch into the
page on the left. When I zoom in or out on the document, the same area
of the screen flickers. This happens even on an empty document.

I think this is the same problem
- 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/818219/abiword-documents-borders-keeps-flashing

I tried this:
  for i in `ls /usr/share/themes`; do echo $i; GTK_THEME="$i" abiword; done
It was the same for every theme, including Adwaita.

Any hope for a fix?

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

Maybe I did not mess it up then. I would agree that the warnings I saw
were all non-critical, and it did complete. I am using MATE 17.04 64
bit., gtk 3.22 and is about exactly as Henk explains above. I can also
confirm that changing the theme makes no difference for me, and I
believe now that the patch is not effective either. I was using 16.10
prior to the upgrade and all worked fine.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Henk Terhell]

I have experienced that Abiword cannot be used on plain Debian Stretch,
Lubuntu 17.04 and Xubuntu 17.04, all using gtk-3.22. Heavy flickering or
moving of paper borders occurs, which stops, together with disappearing
cursor,  after about 8 seconds without activity. Changing the theme does
not have any effect.

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Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

G'day Brian. Good to hear. For local testing, the signing can be
ignored; there's an option to skip it. The warnings sound familiar,
but are normal. For me, the patch did fix the flickering of the whole
screen, but did not fix the flickering cursor. Guess next steps
upstream involve reproducing and debugging in depth to find out why
the flickering happens.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

@James- Thanks for all the help. I went through the steps and in the
end, nothing was any different. I was at least able to learn some of the
steps used here which I really appreciate. I did not see anything too
unusual... there was an error on not being able to sign in the end and
many warnings throughout (ex. depreciated items, defined but not used
variables, etc), but the build did finish and I was able to verify that
the patch applied to the proper file. My guess is either something was
not right or my experience is just too limited resulting in user error
somewhere.

Let me know if and when there are any other options. Thanks again, I
really do appreciate what I have learned in the process with your
direction.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

G'day Brian.  The patch command automatically applies a patch to a set
of files.  The particular patch has a sacrificial path element so the
--strip 1 option should be used.  The --dry-run option is also useful
for testing.  So it would be "patch --strip 1 --dry-run < file.patch",
where file.patch is what was downloaded from the upstream bug report.
If that works, repeat again without the --dry-run.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

@James- Thanks, I can do the compile and build easy enough. Only
question I have then is for the patch, is there an automated way to
apply it to the file? I do not have experience in applying changes in
this manner, but I can always just change the code. Just hoping to learn
more here so I can participate better in the future.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

G'day Brian.  Yes, it needs to be compiled in.  Download the Ubuntu
source package, apply the patch, build the package, then install it.  If
you've not done that before, you may find it quite complicated.  You
might enable deb-src entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, then
"apt-get update", then "apt-get source abiword", then apply the patch,
then install build dependencies with "apt-get build-dep abiword", then
build with "dpkg-buildpackage", then install with "dpkg -i".  There are
different ways to do all this, but that's the simplest I can think of.
Sorry, I didn't keep the result.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

@James- I am sorry, but could you provide a bit of direction on applying
that fix? I understand the + and - aspect, but unsure of where/how to
apply that. My install was just done through package manager, I wonder
if this fix needs to be compiled in?

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

thank you James. I will have a look.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

G'day Brian!  Yes, the theme workaround began not working for me with
17.04.  Yes, the problem can come and go with any changes to the
hardware, kernel, X server, or libraries.  There is a fix that makes the
situation a lot better, see my post last week on the upstream bug
https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791#c46 (attachment
5839).

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Brian]

I am running Ubuntu Zesty 17.04 and have this flickering issue. The
above fix of changing the theme does nothing to correct the issue. I was
using 16.10 prior and did not have this problem. Only after the upgrade
did this start to happen. Is there any update on a possible fix for
this?

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Jeremy Bicha]

I'm reopening the Abiword task since there is apparently a flickering
problem with abiword on Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha (using GTK 3.22) and one of
the developers pointed back to this bug.

http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13815#c24

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
   Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Bug watch added: AbiSource bug tracker #13815
   http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13815

** Tags added: zesty

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Description changed:

  After adding some text in a new document, the entire document (including
  gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker very fast.
  The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a different system in
  VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386)
  
- Workaround
- ==
+ Workaround for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
+ ===
  1. Open the Lubuntu menu.
  2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel
  3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or 
Lubuntu-dark-panel
- 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: abiword 3.0.1-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: abiword
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[hans-erik sigra]

add to grub, radeon.dpm=1, according to this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver#Testing_the_driver
makes flickering slower but it does not stop.
GLX version 1.4 and AMD RV710

I changed grub as xorg used high cpu, when opening abi documents.

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** Changed in: abiword
   Status: Invalid => In Progress

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Uwe, do you have a method to reproduce flickering with the
GTK_THEME=adwaita?

Even so, the workaround is a major improvement, and the best we have, so
I'll add it to my OLPC derivative of the Ubuntu sugar-write-activity
package.  http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/y/1bkIWb.txt

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Uwe Geuder]

I wrote:

  I can confirm [...] the effectiveness of the work-around
"GTK_THEME=adwaita abiword".

With some more testing I have to qualify that statement a bit: With the
adwaita theme the behaviour is clearly improved compared to the default.
I have not seen text flickering so far. But the cursor still flickers a
bit and sometimes disappears completely until some new text is entered.

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Re: [Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Rafael Laguna]

Yes, but we can't force an app to use a custom theme, modifying all Ubuntu
distros as a workaround, instead of actually fixing the problem. Apps must
use any theme.

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:51 Uwe Geuder, 
wrote:

> Using Xubuntu 16.04 with all updates here.
>
> I can confirm both the original flickering and the effectiveness of the
> work-around "GTK_THEME=adwaita abiword".
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> Title:
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> Status in AbiWord:
>   Invalid
> Status in abiword package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
> Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in lubuntu-artwork package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
> Status in abiword source package in Xenial:
>   Invalid
> Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Xenial:
>   Confirmed
> Status in lubuntu-artwork source package in Xenial:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   After adding some text in a new document, the entire document
>   (including gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker
>   very fast. The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a
>   different system in VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386)
>
>   Workaround
>   ==
>   1. Open the Lubuntu menu.
>   2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel
>   3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or
> Lubuntu-dark-panel
>
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: abiword 3.0.1-6
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: i386
>   CurrentDesktop: LXDE
>   Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016
>   ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386
> (20151021)
>   ProcEnviron:
>LANGUAGE=de_DE
>PATH=(custom, no user)
>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
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>   SourcePackage: abiword
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Uwe Geuder]

Using Xubuntu 16.04 with all updates here.

I can confirm both the original flickering and the effectiveness of the
work-around "GTK_THEME=adwaita abiword".

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Julien Lavergne]

According to upstream bug, it's a gtk 3.18 bug which Abiword triggered.
An update to 3.20 fix the issue, which is the case on yakkety. To fix
the bug on 16.04, we have to find the correct gtk fix (which may not be
that easy).

** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Also affects: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Changed in: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Invalid

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** Changed in: abiword
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Confirming for Xenial (16.04.1), 
Package version: 3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Sondra Kinsey]

This effects both the version that ships with Lubuntu 16.04 (abiword
3.0.1-6), and the latest version in lubuntu repositories (abiword
3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1).

I would be happy to test improvements.

This bug renders Abiword unusable it is so distracting and nauseating to
look at.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1574278

** Tags added: iso-testing

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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** Changed in: abiword
   Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: abiword
   Importance: Unknown => High

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Also affects: abiword via
   http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Raised upstream as http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

** Bug watch added: AbiSource bug tracker #13791
   http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[James Cameron]

Impacting OLPC.

Reproduced using Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial amd64 iso booted as live-image,
plus universe, with abiword_3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1 from xenial-updates.

Workaround: switch from Ambiance to High Contrast theme.

Also affects package sugar-write-activity_97-5 which depends on package
gir1.2-abiword-3.0 and thus libabiword-3.0.  In my testing, the draw
signal from Abi.Widget is constantly emitted by Gtk as soon as the first
text is added to an empty document.  The consequent Gdk redraws cause
cursor and screen flicker, the severity of which scales with window
size, graphics card, and CPU performance.

Related bug https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915 for abiword 3.0.1 on
Fedora 24 combined with the Sugar Write activity.

So it would seem this is a problem introduced in Gtk or Abiword.  I'm
available to collaborate on this problem at depth.  Contact
qu...@laptop.org, thanks.


** Bug watch added: bugs.sugarlabs.org/ #4915
   http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4915

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[sudodus]

Augustine Souza alias vasa1 at the Ubuntu Forums found the workaroud:

*Change to the gtk theme Adwaita*

when it is available.

I found that several other themes work too without flickering (but not
Lubuntu-default and Lubuntu-dark-panel).

Some of these themes render the text black in black background for
marked text, others render the text dark but visible.

-o-

Workaround in a system directly from the current Lubuntu Xenial i386 iso
file:

Start Abiword and edit a file. If it starts flickering, select

Menu -- Preferences -- Customize look and feel

- Select another theme alias 'widget style'

- Press the button 'Apply' and watch what happens in the Abiword window.
Edit and do things to check how it works with this new theme, and stay
with a theme that works for you.

For example the first one in the list, Clearlooks, works for me in a
Toshiba laptop with Intel graphics from 2013,

http://www.toshiba.se/laptops/satellite-pro/c850/satellite-pro-c850-19w/

and in a desktop with nvidia graphics from 2008,

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2NVM_DVI/

-o-

In Xubuntu Core, which runs the gtk theme Greybird by default, the
cursor was flickering (no strips), and it was fixed by selecting the
theme Adwaita, like by Augustine Souza in his upgraded Lubuntu system.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Augustine Souza]

I used the following command to test Abiword (3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1) in 
Lubuntu 16.04 (upgraded from 14.04 and fully updated) and in Lubuntu 16.04's 
Openbox session:

GTK_THEME=Theme_name abiword /usr/share/doc/abiword/copyright

The themes I tested were:
Adwaita (installed by default)
Adwaita:dark
Ambiance and Radiance (from the light-themes package)
Greybird and Numix (from the shimmer-themes package)
Lubuntu-default

In my system, both Lubuntu (LXDE + Openbox) and Openbox, only Adwaita
and Adwaita:dark were flicker-free. With all the other themes listed
above, there was an approximately 4 cm tall, screen-wide area that
flickered shortly after the page loaded. The flickering did not affect
the UI and didn't seem particularly related to the cursor.

My system is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop (Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, 64-bit, no
GPU)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[sudodus]

>From the following post at the Ubuntu Forums, I conclude that it is a
problem of the Lubuntu desktop environment.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321942=13513792#post13513792

Quote Originally Posted by jrrpnani
"I have start session with Lxde desktop environment and the flicker issue does 
not happen. With Lubuntu desktop give me the graphic problem."

Interesting observation. I tried with a current (up to date) Lubuntu
16.04 LTS installed system.

Abiword flickers in a Lubuntu session.

But at the login screen I can also select Openbox (only the window
manager, no fancy desktop environment).

Abiword does not flicker in an Openbox session.

The difference is very obvious and repeatable. I need not reboot, only
log out, switch session (near the top right corner) and log into the
other session.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

** Changed in: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Jeremy Bicha]

I can duplicate this bug easily by installing lubuntu-artwork and
setting my gtk-theme to either of the 2 Lubuntu themes.

William, no I don't think abiword will be reverted back to gtk2 in
Ubuntu.

Antony from #6 , Arch's 3.0.1-5 is just the 5th Arch version of Abiword
3.0.1; it's not the same as Debian or Ubuntu's 3.0.1-5.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Also affects: lubuntu-artwork (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Description changed:

  After adding some text in a new document, the entire document (including
  gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker very fast.
  The UI above does not flicker. This happens too on a different system in
  VirtualBox. (Lubuntu 16.04 i386)
+ 
+ Workaround
+ ==
+ 1. Open the Lubuntu menu.
+ 2. Open Preferences>Customize Look and Feel
+ 3. Change the theme to something other than Lubuntu-default or 
Lubuntu-dark-panel
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: abiword 3.0.1-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sun Apr 24 16:12:14 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/abiword
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release i386 (20151021)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=de_DE
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
-  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=de_DE
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
+  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: abiword
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[kozaki]

I confirm this issue on two Lubuntu 16.04 fresh installs. I could
correct it.

First yesterday on a Core2 Duo laptop I installed the OS from the official 
lubuntu-16.04-i386 image.
As OP writes 

> After adding some text in a new document, the *entire document*
(including gray page background, text, text cursor) starts to flicker
very fast. The UI above does not flicker.

Adding even a single letter has the whole content area to constantly
flicker. We could reproduce this anytime launching Abiword.


Second occurence was today in a qemu-kvm VM with lubuntu that I freshly 
installed from Ubuntu mini/netinstall ISO.

- Opening an existing odt document has the header constantly flicker, i.e. the 
top 4 centimeters high banner.
- Opening Abiword (blank) and write any number of letter has the top 4 
centimeters high part of the document constantly flicker.

Here is how I could correct this wrong behaviour:
- Launch lxappearance, in 'Widget' tab shift to any other one than 'Lubuntu-*', 
apply.
Abiword stops to flicker.

Thanks to William Geiger and Arch posters for bringing up the gtk3
settings.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[William Geiger]

I was reading some post on the Arch site and it seems compiling with
GTK2 rather than GTK3 resolved the problem. I just build 3.0.1-7 package
from source on my machine (using GTK3). The flickering issue seems to be
down to just the cursor but I have some other build issues I need to
look into.

FWIW the latest update is causing a conflict with libtidy on my system.
Abiword want's the old libtidy-0.99-0 but the new libtidy5 (1:5.2.0-1)
want's to have it's libs installed in the same place with the same name.
As a temporary fix I uninstalled the old libtidy, installed the new
libtidy5 and libtidy-dev. The only compile issue I ran into is
./configure looking for tidy/buffio.h wich is now tidy/tidybuffio.h. I
just created buffio.h and linked it to tidybuffio.h. To get it to
compile, do not know the consequences of doing so yet.

As I said before I have some other build issues I have to address, but I
do have the program up and running, don't want to hijack this thread
with it but if anyone is interested please contact me.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[JtR]

Can confirm this bug after Upgrade from Lubuntu 14.04.4 to 16.04.
(abiword 3.0.0-4ubuntu1.1  ->  abiword 3.0.1-6)

As soon as text is added, the cursor begins to blink unsteadily.
Also, Abiword then begins to use unusual amounts of CPU (not enormous, but a 
few percents). When minimized, there's no CPU-usage anymore.
When there's more text added, the whole documents starts to flicker, especially 
the background. This effect can be lessened by shrinking the Window, zooming in 
the document or setting focus on another window (so the cursor doesn't blink 
anymore).
The bigger the window and the more characters displayed, the more flickering 
and CPU-usage.

System: Intel i7-2670QM with integrated HD3000 Graphics.

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Thomas Ward]

I can only replicate as reported by the OP when I start triggering
automated scroll downs.  Pasting 15 pages of filler text was able to
very quickly trigger this issue.

It actively impacts usability, so I'm bumping this to "High" actively
(you can't see the top third of the document window through the
flickering interference).

** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => High

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[Bug 1574278] Re: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

[Thomas Ward]

I have confirmed this, however it is *only* the cursor, it is not the
text itself or other components - it is only the cursor.  This doesn't
impact anything but that cursor blink rate.

** Summary changed:

- AbiWord starts to flicker after adding some text
+ AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text

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