[xubuntu-users] Abiword & Libreoffice writer -- "jitters"

[James Freer]

[using 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 
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.

thanks
james