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Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:18 pm
by BlebNevus
I'm running LibreOffice 7.4.4.2 on a Windows 10 computer. Lately I find that when I move my cursor around on a document, it leaves a one-character-high vertical line in place wherever I was working. A search of this forum suggests that this is due to Track Changes (Record). But I haven't started Track Changes; just to be sure, I clicked on it, but that turns it on (which shows that it had been off before). Any thoughts?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:10 pm
by FJCC
Please upload a small document that shows the problem. To upload a file, click Post Reply and look for the Attachments tab just below the box where you type a response.
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:40 pm
by Bill
Is it a real line or a graphical glitch? Do the lines disappear when the document is scrolled?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:39 pm
by BlebNevus
Thanks for these replies. At first I thought the line was left whenever I clicked on a spot in the document, but now I'm noticing it happens only intermittently. I can't figure out the pattern, if there is one. And the lines don't disappear when I scroll, but they do disappear when the document is (re)saved - hence I'm not able to upload an example. Still pretty annoying, though. And it started happening about a week or so ago without my having made any changes to my system or to LibreOffice.
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:51 pm
by FJCC
Can you grab a screen shot when one appears and upload that?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:01 pm
by BlebNevus
OK, see attached, which includes about half a dozen vertical lines in the one paragraph.
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:12 pm
by RoryOF
These lines may be a display aberration. Check with manufacturer's site that you have the latest display card drivers installed for your graphics card -don't rely on Windows to do it for you.
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:10 pm
by BlebNevus
Yet it shows up only on LibreOffice - not on my browsers or email - and only when I'm actively working on a given document.
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:57 am
by robleyd
A wild guess - is it a
SKIA related issue?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 3:55 pm
by BlebNevus
Just refreshing this in case anyone else may have an idea. The problem persists....
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:49 pm
by keme
BlebNevus wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 3:55 pm
Just refreshing this in case anyone else may have an idea. The problem persists....
"Refreshing" is not so refreshing when you show no response to the latest suggestions.
- Did you check for driver updates on manufacturer's site?
Cf. comment from RoryOF
- Did you look into SKIA settings?
Cf. comment from robleyd. Restarting Office apps may be required to enable changes.
If you did, were there any changes at all?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:56 pm
by JeJe
It looks like for some reason the drawing of text caret isn't being done properly (edit: or cleared somehow).
You could look for other things which might redraw the window and so clear the residual lines - apart from saving - perhaps F9 which refreshes fields?
Re: Pesky vertical lines
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:00 pm
by Didactylos
I‘m experiencing this issue as well (only on MacOS). Seems to be related to Skia. If I disable Skia (or set ForceSkiaRaster=True), the lines are gone, but it becomes unusable slow and text selections are not shown anymore.
If I scroll the document a bit, the lines disappear, but still very annoying. Did anybody find a fix for this?