Re: "Jitters"

2.9.2 IMO is broken esp. in Ubuntu. You have wait for or get a newer version, in Ubuntu you can't go back to 2.8.6.



--- On Sun, 1/13/13, Richard L. Dery <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Richard L. Dery <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: "Jitters"
> To: "James Freer" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, January 13, 2013, 10:02 AM
> 
> 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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