open office menu- and controls-fonts blurred

[snearch]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Disturbed menu items in the menu system (e.g. background color, font, font-size, etc.)
reason unknown, seamingly random
- see attached screenshot -

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[Oakbox (richard-oakbox)]

I am experiencing this also.
Sometimes I can snap out of it by resizing the window or closing and opening the window.
There is no pattern that I can see. No specific action makes the menus blur out their text.

[Oakbox (richard-oakbox)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare video

[Oakbox (richard-oakbox)]

apport information

[Oakbox (richard-oakbox)]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this has something to do with X, but I experience this problem ONLY in OO.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Could you try the following items (testing each time to see if it helped):

1. Clearing current openoffice settings by doing "mv .openoffice.org .openoffice.org-old" in a terminal

2. disabling Special Effects (Compiz) and see if that helps (System -> Preferences -> Appearance | Visual Effects and turn to None?

3. disable fond hardware acceleration in openoffice options (tools -> options | OpenOffice.org - View - Use Hardware acceleration

4. In the same option screen as above try to disable Anti aliasing as well.

Thanks!

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[teg (majster-klepka-2009-deactivatedaccount)]

Disable Special Effects helped but it is only a workaround as I don't have such problems with other applications.

[Dmitry Agafonov (dmitry-agafonov)]

Exactly the same. Nvidia 6150, integrated. But the bug is appeared just after last compiz update (from propozed repo).
Also I can see the same wrong text rendering in wine applications. So it is probably not OOo bug but "text rendering method" bug common in OOo and Wine (just my thoughts).

Probably this bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/568492

[snearch (snearch)]

This bug still exists on my system on Ubuntu 10.04 (Writer and Calc, see attached screenshots).

[snearch (snearch)]

screenshot Calc

[Xidorn Quan (upsuper)]

I have excatly the same problem, too. And my gVim display corruption as well.

Switching to metacity fixes the problem, selecting "Best shape" instead of "Subpixel smoothing (LCD)" also does.

I find that the same bug has been reported in different package in the launchpad for several times:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/568492
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/572863

[Vasiliy (itess-home)]

Me too! I am not sure what exactly was upgraded but after that OOo looks kind of funny but not for my wife.

[Vasiliy (itess-home)]

The system is ubuntu 10.10 with all latest automatic upgrades on this date. To me ubuntu 8 was the most stable version on that laptop.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

snearch, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Lucid reaches EOL on May 9, 2013.
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We're closing this bug since there has not been a response from the original reporter. However, the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. If you're not the original reporter, we'd prefer you file a new bug report.

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