Why are LibreOffice 5.2 menus flickering in Xubuntu 16.04?

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LibreOffice 5.2 menus are flickering when opening LibreOffice and while hovering the mouse over them. After a while the flickering fades away. Very annoying and nerve breaking. I guess it got something to do with loading the program into RAM memory. Is there anything i can do about that flickering? This doesn't happen in Windows or in Wine.

I have this problem with v5.3.2.2 x64 on Windows 10. – antonyh May 16 '17 at 14:00 — antonyh, May 16 '17 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '17 at 14:10

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This solved it for me, on v5.3 / Windows 10 / x64:

Tools > Options...
Enable "Use OpenGL for all rendering"
Quit and restart LibreOffice

answered May 16 '17 at 14:10

antonyh

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Yes, I know this is an Ubuntu forum, but this might help universally. – antonyh May 16 '17 at 15:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '22 at 15:00

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Turns out, my system input method was set to xim. Unsetting it and allowing it to default to ibus finally fixed it.

See https://askubuntu.com/a/1434282/133818

answered Oct 07 '22 at 15:00

Martin Spacek

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 27 '16 at 02:31

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I had this problem and had quick look into it. It appears that turning off compositing fixes this issue.

Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor > disable "enable display compositing"

answered Oct 27 '16 at 02:31

Chris Greene

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Why are LibreOffice 5.2 menus flickering in Xubuntu 16.04?

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