In the start center, choose Base Database. => The dialog isn't in focus (all the fields are greyed out). Happens in Linux with gtk3 backend, but not with gen. Bibisected to the following commit using repo bibisect-linux-64-7.1. Adding CC: to Caolán McNamara. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5a342bde16fb46c895eec302af73d7836226eccf author Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> 2020-10-15 15:24:26 +0100 committer Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> 2020-10-22 17:26:08 +0200 weld backing window
Couldn't confirm it with VCL: kf5 Haven't installed gtk3 at this moment. Tested with LO 7.1.0.1 on OpenSUSE 15.2 64bit rpm Linux
Created attachment 168991 [details] what I see is this different to what you see. Is there a difference for you from launching from the start center vs launching soffice --base from the command line ?
Created attachment 168995 [details] Screenshot (not in focus) (In reply to Caolán McNamara from comment #2) > is this different to what you see. Is there a difference for you from > launching from the start center vs launching soffice --base from the command > line ? Yes, it's different, I'm attaching my screenshot. When I launch --base, I get the Select database dialog, focused, without the start center showing in the background.
Created attachment 168996 [details] Screenshot (in focus) And this is what I see after I click into the dialog, this one is similar to yours. Not the freshest build, 5adc93a9a9426ef79054751be2904896f787a8a2 in the bibisect repo is from a week ago (what I used for the screenshots), but I can also repro with 2e29dc20b96f2d96f5b64e9ed5efb79e342b3f54 from 3 days ago.
with GDK_BACKEND=x11 I can reproduce this.
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/98edfb02b2a755d9758bfac2374c0bc8dcebc504 tdf#139368 new database dialog doesn't have focus on start-center launch It will be available in 7.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
that gives the desired results on master as far as I can see, backport to 7-1 in gerrit
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-1": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/06035cdc0e43ca53601a6f66c10b95ce4b4b26a8 tdf#139368 new database dialog doesn't have focus on start-center launch It will be available in 7.1.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.