Text Bunching Up and Overlaying LibreOffice & Other Programs
by tonyawards from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MAG1)
One of our Manjaro installations on a Dell Inspiron 5566 laptop has been having a weird issue with text, and copy-paste. If a paragraph (or even less) of text is copied over from libreoffice-still to an email window (eg: yahoo or gmail in a chrome browser), the text all stacks up and overlays itself on to one line. It can also happen when copying from document to document, and the text will sometimes overlay itself inside one document as I am typing it, overwriting the next line on top of the first one.
Seems weird since it happens in more than just libreoffice, and happens most often when copying into an email text window.
This has been going on for longer than the past three stable updates at least, so I don't really have a recent update set to refer to. Sometimes I can work around it by copying over one line at a time into the new document or email, and sometimes even that won't work. The mouse cursor will not even move to the back of the line at that point, it stays stuck in the front of the line of text.
I've looked through the forum here a few times but have not really seen anything that matches this issue, so I'm posting now. Any ideas as to where to check, or logs/output that could help to debug this? I'm happy to provide any help I can. The system is always up to date with latest upgrades and kernels, etc. It's a basic Manjaro installation, with xfce DM and using xorg. All else seems perfectly fine.
Thanks very much.
Seems weird since it happens in more than just libreoffice, and happens most often when copying into an email text window.
This has been going on for longer than the past three stable updates at least, so I don't really have a recent update set to refer to. Sometimes I can work around it by copying over one line at a time into the new document or email, and sometimes even that won't work. The mouse cursor will not even move to the back of the line at that point, it stays stuck in the front of the line of text.
I've looked through the forum here a few times but have not really seen anything that matches this issue, so I'm posting now. Any ideas as to where to check, or logs/output that could help to debug this? I'm happy to provide any help I can. The system is always up to date with latest upgrades and kernels, etc. It's a basic Manjaro installation, with xfce DM and using xorg. All else seems perfectly fine.
Thanks very much.