Bug 125385 - Value of a cell is deleted when changing to another program
Summary: Value of a cell is deleted when changing to another program
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.0.4 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2019-05-20 10:24 UTC by Herb
Modified: 2019-08-21 15:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Screencast (951.75 KB, video/mp4)
2019-05-21 06:31 UTC, Herb
Details
2nd screencast (1.10 MB, video/mp4)
2019-05-21 10:15 UTC, Herb
Details
3rd screencast (1.84 MB, video/mp4)
2019-05-23 10:02 UTC, Herb
Details

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Description Herb 2019-05-20 10:24:37 UTC
When I change to another programm (i.e. to a pdf-reader) while a filled cell in calc is marked and I change back to calc, the cursor goes into the marked cell and the old value of the cell is not visible anymore. Changing the cell via Return or a arrow leaves the cell empty.

Behaviour should be that the cell still is marked but without the cursor in the cell.
Comment 1 Herb 2019-05-20 13:41:05 UTC
Changing with ALT+TAB
Comment 2 raal 2019-05-21 04:42:34 UTC
I cannot confirm with Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 630db80d17616d635cf2e5f1d5a0852428b794a3
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: x11; 
Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US

write text into cell 
ALT+TAB to another program
ALT+TAB back
return

text is here.
Comment 3 Herb 2019-05-21 06:31:09 UTC
Created attachment 151544 [details]
Screencast

I added a screencast that shows the problem.
Comment 4 raal 2019-05-21 09:55:19 UTC
You can see at 00:02 that cell is empty before Alt+Tab.  Please paste here informations from Help->About
Comment 5 Herb 2019-05-21 10:07:24 UTC
Version: 6.2.3.2
Build-ID: 1:6.2.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~lo1
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Linux 4.15; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: kde5; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 Herb 2019-05-21 10:15:57 UTC
Created attachment 151551 [details]
2nd screencast

Made a secend screencast in which I did not change by ALT+TAB but by taskbar.
Here it happens at the second change.
I did not recognize before that it doesn't appear everytime (rechecked with ALT+TAB and there it also doesn't happen everytime).
Comment 7 Herb 2019-05-23 10:02:40 UTC
Created attachment 151620 [details]
3rd screencast

New information:

It happens for sure, when in the other program, the cursor is focused in any kind of textfield i.e. the address bar of the browser.

It doesn't happen when I change i.e. between calc and gimp (gimp without any file opened)

I made a third screencast to visualize it.
Comment 8 Buovjaga 2019-08-18 11:49:09 UTC
I cannot reproduce (with Firefox address bar).

What if you try running from the command line with
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: b9a776837462eeb6d50d0decc42604c0c3008eb1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Built on 11 August 2019
Comment 9 Herb 2019-08-21 15:05:00 UTC
Updated to 6.3.0.4 and the problem is gone.

In the meantime it helped me not to work under KDE-Plasma but in gnome where the problem didn't occur.
Maybe it was a preference in the Plasma desktop.