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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574278 Title: AbiWord text cursor starts to flicker after adding some text To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1574278/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
