Re: libre office doesn't repaint

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 17:46:22 +0200
Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 08:17 -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > The problem is definitely xfce.  openbox works fine.
> > 
> > I tried enabling/disabling compositor in xfce and no effect.
> > I also tried removing background image and setting desktop background to solid.
> > 
> > Well- back to openbox for now.  Can't remember why I started using xfce.
> 
> > Is there any point in filing a bug ? Seems that there should be a lot
> > of people experiencing this problem, and yet, it seems unlikely that
> > it's hardware related.  After all it should be showing up in openbox
> > too if it was.
> 
> I did find an old bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/889212
> 
> The solution mentioned was to install the libreoffice-gtk package. No
> idea why that would make a difference though.
> 

Thank you Sven!

That fixed it.

I believe the problem is event related, so it does make some amount of sense that libreoffice-gtk should be installed.

I will file a bug report that xfce + libreoffice should require libreoffice-gtk.

Brian