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Display problems LibreOffice 5.* used in Gnome 3.20 on Arch Linux

There was a problem with LibreOffce 5.* used in Gnome 3.20 on an Arch Linux with the 4.4.*-lts kernel. The Display that is used is a HDPI so I am not sure if this is the reason.

Anyways, the problem was that the menu, all the menu entries as well as the font and the content was displayed with four or up to eight the size. If you want to click on something, there was a minimal size lane of size you could go but all in all, it is not a joyful ride.

I could not really find a search term that pointed me to the solution so I tried a lot.

At the end, the only thing that was working is to switch the gnome backend from Wayland to X11. dcdriving from the arch linux forum gave me the hint. How are you doing this?

  • open the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf
  • uncomment the line "WaylandEnable=false"

Source

Hope you will stumble upon this entry and it will solve your problem

X11 freezes and system total hang up on an Lenovo X250 i7-5600U since kernel 4.6.2 (arch linux)

Hey folks, since kernel 4.6.2 I got a lot of X11 freezes as well as unusable gui tools (delayed inputs, scrolling and broken display rendering). Also all the virtual box clients are behaving the same. Only the chromium gui and xterm were usable (well, xterm only on my host, not on the virtual box clients).
I tried my best and here are the changes I made that stopped the system from a total freeze since four days:


#run as root
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel-graphics.conf < DELIM
Section "Device"
    Identifier      "Intel Graphics"
    Driver          "intel"
    Option          "AccelMethod"   "uxa"
    Option          "NoAccel"       "True"
EndSection
DELIM

I am crossing fingers it is working on your machine also.