Ugly (flickering) LibreOffice 5.4

[mkyral]

Hi,
I've updated libreoffice from 5.2.7.2 to 5.4.0.3. Unfortunately, this new version is unusable. Application looks ugly, menu/icons are hidden and shows only until mouse. Application flickers.

See screenshot - difference is only a mouse position:

http://kyralovi.cz/tmp/tmp/Screenshot_20170809_135119.png
http://kyralovi.cz/tmp/tmp/Screenshot_20170809_135148.png

I'm using kde5/plasma desktop with intell graphics - all is smooth, without flickering. Only new LO. I've also tried binaries from LO site, but result is the same. I have to return back to 5.2.7.2.

Any idea, what is wrong? Or what changed in LO? Did I miss something?

[albright]

I find that on *some* of my intel graphics computers (the
newest in fact - HD graphics 530) I have to use UXA in
xorg to prevent artifacts such as you are experiencing.

They also exist on my intel graphics HD-520 but are much
less noticeable.

Anyway, you could try using UXA instead of default SNA
and see if things improve.
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[mike155]

1) What about LibreOffice 5.3? Does it look OK? I would like to know whether the problems come from 5.2 -> 5.3 or from 5.3 -> 5.4

2) Have you tried to switch off hardware acceleration?

[mkyral]

Thanks, I'll try UXA. But probably tomorrow.

[sdoubleyou]

You can try the following things

a) use the variable "export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN = kde4" before starting libreoffice.
b) LibreOffice toolbars unreadable with dark themes - to use toolbar icons compatible with dark themes, set environment variable VCL_ICONS_FOR_DARK_THEME=1 before loading libreoffice
c) Tools > options > preferences > Libreoffice > View >= graphics output: uncheck "use hardware acceleration"

[mkyral]

[mkyral]

[msst]

Hmm, I seem to have the same problem with libreoffice-5.4.3.2.

Is there a way to disable hardware acceleration without using the menus? Because it is flickering so badly, that the program is entirely unuseable. I see nothing except glibberish.

[Hu]

That setting is almost certainly stored in a file somewhere. I don't know where, but perhaps you can find it with some lucky use of recursive grep. If not, hopefully someone familiar with the program can find it for you and post it. It will be easier to find for someone who can change it through the GUI and search their files for changes than for you, since you must rely on guessing how and where it is stored. Alternately, you might be able to navigate at least some of those menus using keyboard accelerators, if you know or can guess those. The first letter of each level is often a good guess.

[kite14]

Hi,
I would like to share my findings about this issue...

I experienced this kind of screen corruption with either Intel or AMD open-source driver (Intel core 3rd generation and 7th generation graphic controller, and Radeon HD3650 graphic controller) every time I enabled "OpenGL rendering". At the moment, I have three PCs with the following working configuration:

Tools → Options → Preferences → LibreOffice → View:

Use Hardware acceleration checked
Use anti-alias checked
Use OpenGL rendering unchecked

[msst]

Thanks, I can confirm that

[kite14]