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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>
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> Thanks for the offe
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 settin
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 fi
Sorry for the delay, I'm working on getting this in Xenial now.
Thanks.
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** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Zesty)
Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) => (unassigned)
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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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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
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Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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Hi, any chance to see this patch applied on Zeisty?
Thanks in advance
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Thanks for squashing this bug :-)
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Also I can confirm this annoying flashing has gone on Lubuntu 17.10.
Great!
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** Changed in: abiword (Debian)
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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
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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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)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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** 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: abiwo
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
Ok, did you get a chance to test it or did you just review the diff?
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Thanks. Reviewed abiword_3.0.2-3_3.0.2-3ubuntu1~ppa1.diff.gz ... looks
right to me.
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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
** Changed in: abiword (Ubuntu Xenial)
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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
Used the same test that Sondra on #43 and also with no luck on any theme
Lubuntu 17.04
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> 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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> GTK_THEME=Abiword solves the problem, no more flickering
Does not solve for me on Artful 17.10.
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Confirm the bug with the dafault Xubuntu theme.
$ env GTK_THEME=Abiword
solves the problem, no more flickering
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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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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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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.
A
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 p
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
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
@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 th
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
@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 part
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", t
@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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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.abisourc
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
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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 => C
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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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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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
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 flick
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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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
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Confirming for Xenial (16.04.1),
Package version: 3.0.1-6ubuntu0.16.04.1
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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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Status: Unknown => Confirmed
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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-abi
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 backg
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:d
>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&p=13513792#post13513792
Quote Originally Posted by jrrpnani
"I have start session with Lxde desktop environment and the flicker issue
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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
** 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 ha
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
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.
FWI
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
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
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:
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+ AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker a
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