GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

HarlemSquirrel · 2014-03-04 03:03:29

So, sometimes I start GNOME 3.10 and the panel items are squished, the gear notification icon is half visible. My favorite app icons in the Activities menu are squished and searching gives unusable results. Clicking the System menu give me an unusable corrupt menu that seems displaced off screen with only a tiny portion visible. If I press Ctl+Alt+Delete, I get a reduced shutdown prompt.

This was only happening occasionally and a reboot would often fix it. By the way, this only occurs at login. I was able to reduce the occurances by removing and reinstalling LibreOffice (the version currently in extra repository). After updating today, I had to remove LibreOffice to get my desktop back in order.

About a week ago I installed the LibreOffice version in testing and had the same issues.

Is anyone else having this very odd issue?

superchango · 2014-03-04 15:50:42

Something similar with Mate + LibreOffice:

After login, when i scroll to Aplications>Office, there is a lag of 15~20 seconds if i have the LibreOffice icons in that entry. I can reduce this lag disabling some of those icons with Alacarte and if a hidde all of them (or if a uninstall LibreOffice) there are not any problem or lag. This doesn't happen with another menu entry (even if they have several icons) only where are the LibreOffice icons.

I dunno if is something with the LibreOffice .desktop files.

I have a nettop Atom 1.6 Ghz with 1 GB ram, updated Arch 32 bit using only estable official repos.

Edit: And this only happen the first time that i put the cursor in that menu entry after loggin too.
Also, with Xfce i don't have any problem.

Last edited by superchango (2014-03-04 15:57:00)

SimFox3 · 2014-03-04 21:37:07

This just started happening to me after an update. I don't know what changed.

SimFox3 · 2014-03-04 21:50:25

The Gnome icons become normal if I close and re-open the laptop lid. Need to repeat this on restarts. I can't figure out which of these updates caused the issue:

[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded glibc (2.19-2 -> 2.19-3)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (208-11 -> 210-2)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded libpulse (4.0-6 -> 5.0-1)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded chromium (33.0.1750.117-1 -> 33.0.1750.146-1)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.105-1 -> 2.02.105-2)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded cryptsetup (1.6.3-2 -> 1.6.4-1)
[2014-03-04 13:19] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk2 (1.10.2-8 -> 2.2.5-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded eclipse (4.3.1-2 -> 4.3.2-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded freetype2-infinality-ultimate (2.5.2-3 -> 2.5.2-5)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded fontconfig-infinality-ultimate (2.11.0-15 -> 2.11.0-19)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded gcr (3.10.1-2 -> 3.10.1-3)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded gdk-pixbuf2 (2.30.5-1 -> 2.30.6-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk (2.2.5-1 -> 2.2.5-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded gitg (0.2.7-2 -> 0.3.2-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded readline (6.2.004-2 -> 6.3-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded gnutls (3.2.11-1 -> 3.2.12-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded gptfdisk (0.8.9-1 -> 0.8.10-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.19-1 -> 2.19-3)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-libpulse (4.0-6 -> 5.0-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded libgphoto2 (2.5.3.1-1 -> 2.5.3.1-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded libtirpc (0.2.3-2 -> 0.2.4-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-ck-ivybridge (3.12.13-1 -> 3.13.5-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-ck-ivybridge-headers (3.12.13-1 -> 3.13.5-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.105-1 -> 2.02.105-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded man-pages (3.60-1 -> 3.61-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded ppp (2.4.6-1 -> 2.4.6-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded pulseaudio (4.0-6 -> 5.0-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded raptor (2.0.12-1 -> 2.0.13-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (208-11 -> 210-2)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-ck-host-modules-ivybridge (4.3.8-1 -> 4.3.8-3)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded xterm (301-1 -> 302-1)
[2014-03-04 13:20] [PACMAN] upgraded yelp (3.10.1-2 -> 3.10.2-1)
[2014-03-04 13:21] [PACMAN] upgraded chromium-libpdf (1:33.0.1750.117-1 -> 1:33.0.1750.146-1)
[2014-03-04 13:22] [PACMAN] upgraded chromium-pepper-flash (12.0.0.70-2 -> 12.0.0.70-3)
[2014-03-04 13:22] [PACMAN] upgraded google-talkplugin (5.1.4.0-1 -> 5.1.5.0-1)

brittyazel · 2014-03-05 01:13:28

This issue happened after the linux 3.13 kernel upgrade. To solve the problem temporarilly press "alt+F2" and then "r" and press enter. This solves the problem for me every time, albeit not permanently.

SimFox3 · 2014-03-05 06:55:22

@brittyazel, I don't think linux-3.13 caused this. I had been using linux-3.13 for a week with no issues, but just today did this issue start appearing. Is there a bug report on this?

wankel · 2014-03-05 07:50:36

Started happening to me as well after todays update. Haven't had a chance to investigate but will report back if I find anything.

hrkristian · 2014-03-12 13:36:00

brittyazel wrote:

This issue happened after the linux 3.13 kernel upgrade. To solve the problem temporarilly press "alt+F2" and then "r" and press enter. This solves the problem for me every time, albeit not permanently.

For anyone interested in automating the above "fix", open gnome-session-properties and add this entry

bash -c "sleep 10 && gnome-shell --replace"

Last edited by hrkristian (2014-03-12 13:36:26)

SimFox3 · 2014-03-12 17:39:07

Did anyone open a bug on this?

HarlemSquirrel · 2014-03-12 23:34:10

I did not open a bug, but I can now report that this issue occurs without LibreOffice. Restarting the GNOME shell with brittyazel's suggestion fixes the issue for me at least temporarily.

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#1 2014-03-04 03:03:29

GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#2 2014-03-04 15:50:42

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#3 2014-03-04 21:37:07

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#4 2014-03-04 21:50:25

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#5 2014-03-05 01:13:28

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#6 2014-03-05 06:55:22

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#7 2014-03-05 07:50:36

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#8 2014-03-12 13:36:00

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

#9 2014-03-12 17:39:07

Re: GNOME Desktop and LibreOffice Graphical Issue

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