System freeze with LO

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#1

Hello,
I have been using LO for years and years as a very happy customer! Just lately
I have an annoying issue: I use LO (Version 5.x) mainly under Linux/Mint 17.3.
Sometimes, when marking a text area under Writer so as to copy/paste it, my
system freezes to the point that it has to be re-booted. This does NOT happen
under Debian 8 or Windows 7. So it might well be a problem inherent to Linux-Mint.
Does anybody else also experience this?
Greetings from Salzburg (spring has just broken out viciously here!)
Heinz
P.S.: By the way - I wish Base could find enough people to beef it up somewhat.
Somebody in a Linux newsletter I get everyday just stated that the absence of
something like Access is the number one stopper for them to fully convert to LO.
I use Base with a MySQL back-end server a lot, but it is be no means a complete
enough package at present...

#2

On 04/11/2016 02:14 PM, On 04/11/2016 02:14 PM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:

Hello,
I have been using LO for years and years as a very happy customer! Just lately
I have an annoying issue: I use LO (Version 5.x) mainly under Linux/Mint 17.3.
Sometimes, when marking a text area under Writer so as to copy/paste it, my
system freezes to the point that it has to be re-booted. This does NOT happen
under Debian 8 or Windows 7. So it might well be a problem inherent to Linux-Mint.
Does anybody else also experience this?
Greetings from Salzburg (spring has just broken out viciously here!)
Heinz
P.S.: By the way - I wish Base could find enough people to beef it up somewhat.
Somebody in a Linux newsletter I get everyday just stated that the absence of
something like Access is the number one stopper for them to fully convert to LO.
I use Base with a MySQL back-end server a lot, but it is be no means a complete
enough package at present...

Well, there's a very old (2011-old) thread about it on forums.linuxmint.com [1] and I even remotely can say if that's true but it seams that you should turn off hardware acceleration and anti aliasing under

Tools → Options → LibreOffice → View [→ untick Use hardware acceleration and Use anti-aliasing]

But I have no clue if that will work (or what is actually wrong in the first place)...

:slight_smile:

[1] https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=77851#p455010

#3

Thanks, Kruno! I will try out your hints...
Regards
Heinz

#4

Hello,
In the meantime I have - which I rarely do - booted Windows 7 and worked
with it for a couple hours, testing LO, Opera-Mail, the new Vivaldi browser,
etc.
I didn't encounter ANY problem. This makes me think that the "freeze" has
nothing at all to do with LO, but probably Mint 17.3.
Regards
H. Stoellinger