Bug 114385 - LibreOffice Calc active cell border/highlight missing when using modesetting driver
Summary: LibreOffice Calc active cell border/highlight missing when using modesetting ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.4.3.2 release
Hardware: Other Linux (All)
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Reported: 2017-12-10 14:40 UTC by HG Rybak
Modified: 2018-12-17 09:22 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description HG Rybak 2017-12-10 14:40:38 UTC
In the UI, of LibreOffice Calc I cannot see the active cell with a border. Instead, I can only see the column and row header highlighted, which makes it pretty difficult to work. 
I tried a possible solution which had been published after several Ubuntu and Opensuse users reported the problem, installing the Xorg-X-server driver xf86-video-intel which delivered the desired frame around the cell in LibreOffice Calc, but also resulted in an unstable system, showing a lot of graphics problems with artefacts - so I needed to uninstall it again.
I am using LibreOffice since the beginning in several opensuse releases and never faced such a problem after an upgrade. Which solution option do you provide?

I am working with opensuse leap 42.3.20170911, graphics card intel I915: lshw shows
*-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
*-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: D2812-A1
       vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
       physical id: 0
       version: S26361-D2812-A1
       serial: B0679293
*-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
          physical id: 0
          version: 6.00 R1.13.2812.A1
          date: 03/19/2009
          size: 110KiB
          capacity: 4032KiB
*-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400
          slot: CPU
          size: 2999MHz
          capacity: 3GHz
          width: 64 bits
Comment 1 raal 2017-12-14 21:14:30 UTC
Have you tested the options for the graphics card in Menu/Tools/LibreOffice/View?
Disabling the OpenGL and HW acceleration.
Comment 2 HG Rybak 2017-12-17 13:47:45 UTC
(In reply to raal from comment #1)
> Have you tested the options for the graphics card in
> Menu/Tools/LibreOffice/View?
> Disabling the OpenGL and HW acceleration.

Yes, I did both, but it does not improve the situation. Even worse, I see only fragments of the file content then, display errors.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2017-12-25 19:04:47 UTC
I don't know the precise cause, but Ubuntu users solved it by upgrading to Ubuntu 17.04: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104244#c20
Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2017-12-30 18:47:55 UTC
Please, could you copy&paste infos from menu Help > about LibreOffice ?

Set status to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once requested
informations are provided.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 5 HG Rybak 2017-12-31 06:05:17 UTC
Hello Jean-Baptiste,

here we go:

Version: 5.4.3.2
Build-ID: 40m0(Build:2)
CPU-Threads: 2; Betriebssystem:Linux 4.4; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: kde4; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group

Display Graphics Controller Intel 77330, driver i915.

Best Regards, 
HGR
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2017-12-31 09:30:20 UTC
If you launch from the command line with

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice

is the problem still there?
Comment 7 HG Rybak 2018-01-04 12:48:40 UTC
Yes, the problem is still the same, but addtionally I get font artefacts.
Comment 8 HG Rybak 2018-01-04 12:50:32 UTC
"If you launch from the command line with
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice
is the problem still there?"

Yes, the problem continues to appear, and additionally, I then get font artefacts.

HGR
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2018-11-27 14:39:40 UTC
Hi HG Rybak,
A new major release of LibreOffice is available since this bug was reported.
Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice
from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 10 HG Rybak 2018-12-16 19:44:12 UTC
Hey Francisco, thank you for your help.
Meanwhile I have installed a new Linux version (opensuse leap 15) and with this the new LibreOffice version which came with it (6.0.5.2). In this version, the error is not present any more.
Comment 11 Xisco Faulí 2018-12-17 09:22:03 UTC
Thanks for retesting with the latest version.
Setting to RESOLVED WORKSFORME as the commit fixing this issue hasn't been identified.