Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/09/2011 01:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>>> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but
>>> I do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope
>>> this is not hijacking your thread -
>> I think your problem is a different problem ;)
>>
>>> When composing with html formatting - there are many times in the
>>> compose window that a line will blank out with often some red uneven
>>> lines along it - moving the cursor back up and removing a character
>>> and retyping it will often fix the rendering and everything is fine
>>> again - this has been happening for quite a long time with TB 8 and
>>> also 9 but I don't know if this is being worked on for a fix - anyone
>>> else seeing this or am I alone?
>> You are not alone ... I am experiencing this as well and can't deny to
>> find it very annoying.
>>
>> I am guessing the cause is a malfunction in TB's spellchecker, may-be in
>> combination with a bug in the X11 server, but I am not sure about it.
>
> I read this after responding to Mike's response....   I think you are
> probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It
> may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW?

My GPU is (lspci output)

1:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 
GT] (rev a1)

Currently using:
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.x86_64
under xfce.

Ralf