Staroffice turns to custard
 

I'm having display problems with the Staroffice (and Openoffice) spreadsheet apps. As I scroll down, the data in the spreadsheet window turns to mush! (all cells become highlighted and start distorting as you scroll down).Only the spreadsheet window is affected. If I click to desktop and back again - it clears (so data not affected). This problem doesn't happen in other apps so its not a general display problem. I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 with KDE 3.0.
Any ideas?

Peter.

How much RAM do you have in your computer? A lot of times spreadsheet apps are memory hogs. If you are running your system on 64 or even 128 MB of RAM you could just be running low on memory. Try running the spreadsheet program all by itself and see what happens (close all running programs and terminate all none essencial services). KDE, itself can be a memory hog as well.

I had a similar problem with Kword. When i select and delete sentences or characters they stay on the screen, i have to press the "save" button and Kword then updates itself and the characters dissapear and i can continuw working. I have no problems with Star/Open office tho....
If someone knows what this could be please let me us know, i have 256MB ram so that is not a problem...
Thanks in advance
-NSKL

I have 393 meg of ram, so probably not an issue. However, I've noticed that if I open a small window over the top of any other fully open window, and then drag that small window around the screen - it leaves a video 'trail'. So perhaps it is a video card issue?

Yes, absolutely, since its just a display problem its probably just a misconfigured X, which makes sense as SuSe 8.0 probably did that for you. Check the monitor specs online and anything special about your card, whatever graphics acceleration it takes; opengl, matrox, framebuffering, and then poke around your XF86Config file.

Luck,

Finegan

thank you - am just in the process of upgrading motherboard so will see what new video card does - is onboard video o.k with Linux? (I'd heard a separate video card was adviseable.

If you are not gonna do something fancy,play games, etc onboard is fine.