Re: "Jitters"

On 12/30/2012 12:36 AM, James Freer wrote:
>
> [OS -- xubuntu 12.04]
>
> I've been an Abiword user for several years - not that it offeres more
> features than Openoffice writer or now Libreoffice writer but i just
> preferred it being slightly more lightweight for my uses. The current
> version in the repos 2.9.2 (which i've noted now is a development
> version) appears to suffer from "jitters" i.e. i can be typing a
> document and then when i delete a word or sentence and retype i seem
> to get the line appearing in different places. Sometimes when i type a
> letter i have no problem at all... sometimes several lines go missing,
> save and exit, into abiword and all is ok. Hmm to me that is a bit
> worrying. Another thing that seems to happen is a line maybe half way
> down the screen gets the top half cut off. Sometimes scrolling seems
> to rectify this.... but more often not.
>
> So last week i gave up on Abiword and started using Libreoffice
> writer. All ok until yesterday when i wrote a letter... 'balderdash' -
> jitters weren't so bad but the top half cut off was back.
>
> Anyone else had this problem or can explain a solution. It doesn't
> seem like a bug with either app - previous versions were fine... so
> there must be some fault with the ?. But i haven't noticed any problem
> with Leafpad or Gedit so what could be the next step to analysing a
> solution.
>
> I'm convinced now that it's NOT an abiword problem. i've tried
> swopping keyboard, graphics card and now i've decided on changing
> distro. Just wondering if anyone else has had or heard of such a
> problem.

If your problem doesn't appear in other programs, I would suspect is
AbiWord.

Have you tried upgrading to version 2.9.4? It's supposed to have a lot
of bug fixes. You can download the source code from
http://abisource.com/download/development.phtml.

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