Description of problem: When I have a full-screen spreadsheet and I use <Alt><Tab> to swap between the spreadsheet and something else, when I return to the spreadsheet it takes more than a second to repaint columns with formulas in them. The problem also appears when paging down the spreadsheet. This makes it difficult to work on a spreadsheet when looking at other documents. I haven't noticed this problem in FC6 or FC5. It could be that the kernel and other packages just have too many debugging features turned on. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-calc-2.2.0-12.1.i386.rpm gnome-desktop-2.18.0-3.fc7 kernel-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached spreadsheet 2. Try transferring out and into it using <Alt><Tab> or try scrolling down and up. Actual results: On my 800 MHz Pentium III system with 512 MB, it takes more than a second for the screen to finish painting. Expected results: Screen painting should finish in less than 1/4 second. (Am I spoiled?) Additional info: Screen resolution on my test system is 1280x1024, 85 Hz. lspci shows 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS My OOo locale is set to Estonian, but the date display doesn't seem to have any problems. For the attached document, the C and H columns are the ones that reappear slowly. I don't appear to be swapping. The "free" command shows only 88 blocks of swap space used.
Created attachment 151134 [details] Example oocalc spreadsheet
There's no noticeable redraw time at all for me with openoffice.org-calc-2.2.0-14.1 but I don't have the same video card as you and have a higher spec box so it's hard to tell if this is now fixed or remains a problem. Maybe try again with Test3 to see if the problem remains. But in the meantime I can't reproduce the problem :-(
Oops, I had planned to try this on my F7T2 system at work, too... There is some delay in my second system, too, but it isn't as pronounced as on the first system. As a further description of what I see, when I first swap into the spreadsheet, columns C and H are half painted and everything else is fully painted. After a moment, C and H complete. The "moment" is much less than a second on my second system. There is also considerable delay and flashing if I need to scroll down while selecting cells like you would do for copy-and-paste. Now I'll have to go home and see how this looks on my FC5 system... My second system is a 2 GHz P4 system with 1 GB of memory. The lspci for the video controller shows 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) We can leave this closed for now. I will re-open it if I have worse problems with Test3, or if things don't improve in the final release.