Bug 54871

Summary:	Unnecessary flicker in the text cursor
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Muthu <muthu.subramanian.karunanidhi>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	santiago473
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0.0.0.beta1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Muthu 2012-09-13 15:02:15 UTC

In writer, if you select a text (mouse click+drag), the (text) cursor 
flickers a lot while doing that. Does not happen with older releases (I don't know from which exact release is the regression - but I have a very old OOo 3.2 and doesn't happen there)

Steps:
a) Use mouse click + drag to select a block of text
b) while moving the mouse to select, the text cursor flickers too much

[fyi: This flicker is also seen when you single click on the text to change the text cursor position]

Comment 1 santiago473 2012-12-19 17:44:20 UTC

I can confirm this bug for LibreOffice 4.0 beta 1:

When selecting a piece of text by left-clicking on the text, the cursor starts to "flicker" because to the regular cursor blink and additional blink is added at the moment you press the left mouse button.

Comment 2 santiago473 2012-12-20 00:35:39 UTC

#correcting typo:

to the regular cursor blink **an** additional blink is added at the moment you press the left mouse button

#adding myself to CC list

Comment 3 santiago473 2013-11-02 03:58:31 UTC

With the update to Libre Office 4.1.2 this issue got fixed for me.

When changing the position of the cursor or entering a new line the cursor now starts with a "new full blink cycle", eliminating the cursor flickering that occurred before.

Comment 4 ign_christian 2013-11-02 10:05:38 UTC

Worksforme per comment 3. Also confirm not reproducible with LO 4.0.6.2 (Win7 32bit)