Re: "Jitters"

Hi Lee

Simply beyond belief why ubuntu used ver 2.9.2 (a development version in a
stable release) but then little surprises me with ubuntu these days having used
it since 2007. I've switched to Fedora which although is a six month release
seems to be a very much more stable distro. Ubuntu generates
.goutputstream****** file in the home directory every time one logs on.

Fedora uses abiword ver 2.8.6 which is the latest stable release and so far no
problems.

james

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Lee Gold wrote:

> 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 <dickdery@centurylink.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Richard L. Dery <dickdery@centurylink.net>
>> Subject: Re: "Jitters"
>> To: "James Freer" <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com>
>> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> 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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