Enabling OpenGL rendering also solved this for me (the attached file
shows which checkbox must be enabled/marked/checked, at the LibreOffice
GUI).

I'm running LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 on a 64-bit XUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus"
system. My computer is a Dell laptop (Dell Inspiron 5548) which has
hybrid graphics (it has two GPU - Graphics Processing Units): GPU 1 is
an Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (it's embedded into the i7
CPU/processor), while GPU 2 is an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Topaz
XT [Radeon R7 M260/M265] (it's a PCI Express 3.0 graphics card).

*Ubuntu (Ubuntu, XUbuntu, KUbuntu...) 16.04 distros ship with kernel
4.4.X, which has a bug that causes malfunction of the kernel with the
open source "amdgpu" and "radeon" graphics drivers (they superseded the
proprietary "fglrx" driver by AMD). See bug #1608042
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
amdgpu/+bug/1608042).

Hence, if your computer has any AMD GPU (despite of your computer having
hybrid graphics or not), and if your distro is *Ubuntu 16.04 and you
already installed MESA (OpenGL support for Linux) and activated OpenGL
rendering in LibreOffice, but the issue remais, it is likely that your
system is affected by the kernel/AMD bug.

It's thus recommended to download and install a further stable kernel,
like e.g. kernel v4.7.2:

- For 64-bit *Ubuntu, download these three files:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb

- For 32-bit *Ubuntu, download these three files:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb

...then open a shell terminal window, cd (change directory) into the
folder where you donwloaded those DEB packages into, then install the
packages and restart your system. For instance, if you downloaded those
DEB packages into your downloads folder (/home/your-username/Downloads),
then this command will cd into your downloads folder, install the
downloaded packages and restart your system (your password will be asked
by the shell):

cd ~/Downloads ; sudo dpkg -i linux-*.deb ; telinit 6

** Attachment added: "Activate OpenGL rendering."
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1575000/+attachment/4738500/+files/opengl_rendering.jpg

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