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?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text Status in AbiWord: In Progress Status in abiword package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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: Confirmed 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 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=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: abiword UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/abiword/+bug/1574278/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
