Bug 20167 - Abiword : Black screen and screenflicker
Summary: Abiword : Black screen and screenflicker
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Shlomi Fish
QA Contact:
URL: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bu...
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Keywords: 7beta2
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-01-23 20:31 CET by psyca
Modified: 2019-03-13 21:18 CET (History)
5 users (show)

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Description psyca 2017-01-23 20:31:12 CET
Description of problem:

Run in LXQt (i didnt tested other DEs yet but it happens on 2 different Computer systems)

If you open Abiword, you see the menubar and other things like it should, only the textfield is completely black and you cant read something.
If you scrool the black screen gets white for a short time and you can see text... after that everything gets black again.
The screen flickers.

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start in LXQt
2. Start Abiword (blank or load an file)
3. It shows the textfield completely black and flickers on scrooling


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I "googled" a bit and i dont know ifs something similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287835
Comment 1 psyca 2017-01-23 23:44:48 CET
Video of it under LXDE (happens also in VM):
https://youtu.be/4XolRGsDux0
Comment 2 psyca 2017-01-28 21:56:39 CET
(possible) Upstream report : http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

URL: (none) => http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2017-02-02 20:20:18 CET
I can reproduce it in lxqt from startx in a new user account on cauldron x86-64 with sandy bridge intel graphics. It also happens on Xfce on my default user. It seems unlikely to be a Mageia-specific bug though.
Comment 4 Ben McMonagle 2017-06-14 10:59:49 CEST
confirm for MGA6 Final (LXdE) both i586 and x86_64

CC: (none) => westel

Comment 5 Ben McMonagle 2017-06-14 11:00:55 CEST
meant to add,

Tried several themes but did not seem to make a difference
Comment 6 Len Lawrence 2017-06-14 15:34:36 CEST
Confirmed the bug.
Installed abiword on GNOME Cauldron (Xorg) and started with a blank page.  That was black but turned white on a left-mouse-click and stayed that way until the cursor left the text field - turned black then.  Opened an existing file in a new window, which started black but could be cleared with a mouse-click.  Scrolling involves leaving the text field and the window turns black.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

Comment 7 Chris B 2017-06-14 16:12:14 CEST
Confirmed, M6 32b vbox. DE: Xfce.
Exactly as Ben and Len described. Tried 5 different themes, compositor on or off.

CC: (none) => shybluenight

Comment 8 Shlomi Fish 2017-07-17 15:37:45 CEST
Note that abiword-3.0.2-6.fc26.x86_64 is working fine on fedora 26 x86-64.
Comment 9 Florian Hubold 2017-08-05 19:20:08 CEST
@Shlomi: Can you push abiword 3.0.2 as an update, as several users seem to be affected, see also bug 18061 for a pretty similar issue. Seems abiword is not really usable on mga6 currently.

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Florian Hubold 2017-08-05 19:20:31 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18061

Comment 10 Shlomi Fish 2017-08-05 20:23:39 CEST
(In reply to Florian Hubold from comment #9)
> @Shlomi: Can you push abiword 3.0.2 as an update, as several users seem to
> be affected, see also bug 18061 for a pretty similar issue. Seems abiword is
> not really usable on mga6 currently.

version 3.0.2 of abiword still reproduces the problem on Cauldron, rendering abiword unusable, so there is no point in issuing an update for mga6.
Comment 11 Lewis Smith 2018-12-07 12:03:23 CET
This problem still exists on M7beta1: abiword-3.0.2-5.mga7
I saw it under Gnome (other desktops to try), so it is probably desktop independent. Since AbiWord is, alas, known for trashing documents if you push it at all - why do we still offer it? It would be useful if it was reliable.
Comment 12 Ben McMonagle 2019-02-01 21:47:32 CET
still valid for :

Mageia-7-beta2-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Wed Jan 30 22:29:58 CET 2019

Keywords: (none) => 7beta2

Comment 13 Sébastien Morin 2019-02-03 19:39:25 CET
Also valid for Mageia-7-beta2-x86_64.iso (Jan. 30th)
But works fine on Fedora29 with version 3.0.2-13.fc29 :-)
I don't mind if it's removed from mga7, I've never used Abiword... ;-)

CC: (none) => sebsweb

Comment 14 psyca 2019-02-03 20:37:19 CET
It seems that there are patches upstream (see comment #2 for upstream bugreport link) and also its marked as fixed on 11.08.2018 (see also upstream report - comment #67 and #71 - the patch seems not to included as file-attachment in the bugreport but there are notes that it is included in trunk).

I tried the flatpak of abiword (which included the patches) and it works for me with MGA7 Cauldron.
Comment 15 psyca 2019-02-24 11:39:45 CET
Since yesterday update in MGA Cauldron its much better now and useable, but theres still some little GUI flickering.
Comment 16 psyca 2019-03-13 20:48:19 CET
Closing as fixed. Works since last update anymore for me.
Thanks.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 17 psyca 2019-03-13 20:48:51 CET
Closing as fixed. Works since last update for me.
Thanks.
Comment 18 Sébastien Morin 2019-03-13 21:18:10 CET
Also fixed here.
abiword-3.0.2-8.mga7 on Plasma (plasma-workspace-5.15.1-1.mga7)

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