Re: Odd Marks Appearing/Obtruding in documents...

Hi mehermuchacho,

A recent update of Fedora-11 fixed this for me. It was caused by a bug
the intel 3D graphics driver. Hopefully this fix will make it to
Ubuntu too.

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:08 AM, mehermuchacho <mehermuchacho@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone!
>
> Thanks for the prompt replies - My OS is also Ubuntu 9.04, and who knows? The problem *is* probably something to do with Ubuntu-New and also some GTK issue....
>
> If anyone has any solution(s), don't hesitate to e-mail!
>
> Yours with all good Abiword wishes,
>
> - mehermuchacho
>
> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Greg Heilers <gheilers@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Greg Heilers <gheilers@earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: Odd Marks Appearing/Obtruding in documents...
>> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Cc: mehermuchacho@yahoo.com
>> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 10:08 AM
>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:09:10 -0700
>> (PDT)
>> mehermuchacho <mehermuchacho@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Dear Abi-Sorcerers -
>> >
>> > This is just a little question. When I create a
>> document in my Abiword, and if I then use the UP and DOWN
>> arrows to scroll through the document, this leaves a trail
>> of big black vertical lines where the "cursor" has been as
>> it jumps through the document.
>> >
>> > I don't think these vertical lines (and occasional
>> larger black rectangles) really *EXIST* in the document (but
>> I haven't printed such a document so I don't know for
>> sure...) - they seem to me to be some software artefact of
>> the 'footprint' of the cursor...
>> >
>> > Has anyone else experienced this, and is there any way
>> to get it to stop occurring?
>> >
>> > Answers on an e-mail please, to: mehermuchacho@yahoo.com
>> !
>> >
>> > And *T H A N K S* ! ! ! !
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> I am running Abiword 2.6.3 on Slackware 12.2,  and it
>> runs fine.
>> However, over the summer, I played around with Ubuntu 9.04
>> on my
>> laptop, and with the then-current Abiword package for
>> Ubuntu, and
>> I *did* experience similar "screen-garbage" - it seemed to
>> follow
>> the cursor, leaving underscores behind.
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>> --
>>
>> Greg Heilers
>> Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 12.2 (2.6.27.7)
>> AUS
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