Bug 146143 - The Paragraph Style Dropdown Box Causes the Program to Freeze (KDE)
Summary: The Paragraph Style Dropdown Box Causes the Program to Freeze (KDE)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145419
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.2.3.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Blocks: KDE
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Reported: 2021-12-09 10:09 UTC by Terry Coles
Modified: 2022-01-25 15:37 UTC (History)
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Description Terry Coles 2021-12-09 10:09:31 UTC
When changing the Style of text using the Style Selector Drop Box at the LHS of the Menu bar the Program freezes (eg, no more text can be entered and the target text Style is not changed.  Recovery is achieved by Saving the Document and re-opening it.

The new Style can be selected by using the Styles Pane.
Comment 1 Dieter 2021-12-25 13:02:18 UTC
Terry, thank you for reporting the bug. Some questions:

1) Style selector Drop Box = Paragraph Style drop down menu?
2) LHS = Left Hand Side?

I can't confirm it with

Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: deea3b7471c3dab0220eca6146c225a2d47681a2
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL

Have you also tested in SafeMode (Help -> Restart in SafeMode)?
=> NEEDINFO
Comment 2 Terry Coles 2021-12-25 13:18:10 UTC
(In reply to Dieter from comment #1)
> 1) Style selector Drop Box = Paragraph Style drop down menu?

Yes.  That's what I meant.

> 2) LHS = Left Hand Side?

Yes.

> I can't confirm it with
> 
> Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community

This is the version included with Kubuntu 21.10:

Version: 7.2.3.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.13; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.2.3-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
Calc: threaded

> Have you also tested in SafeMode (Help -> Restart in SafeMode)?

Yes.  It still exhibits the problem.
Comment 3 Dieter 2021-12-25 13:23:39 UTC
(In reply to Terry Coles from comment #2)
> Yes.  It still exhibits the problem.

Perhaps it's only related to Linux. I hope, that somebody else can help.
Comment 4 Terry Coles 2021-12-25 13:26:39 UTC
I hope so too.
Comment 5 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2022-01-22 20:24:19 UTC
Does it work if you launch LibreOffice from a terminal using this command:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gen" libreoffice

???

Status has been set to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once requested information has been provided.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 6 Terry Coles 2022-01-23 07:03:00 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #5)
> Does it work if you launch LibreOffice from a terminal using this command:
> 
> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gen" libreoffice

Yes it does.  To be sure, I created a new document by pasting a block of text into the newly launched Writer and tested for the problem.  It was not apparent.

I then saved the document and re-opened it in the normal way; the bug came back.  I exited the document without saving it and then re-opened it using the command above.  The bug was not apparent.
Comment 7 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2022-01-23 09:15:18 UTC
(In reply to Terry Coles from comment #6)
> (In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #5)
> > Does it work if you launch LibreOffice from a terminal using this command:
> > 
> > SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gen" libreoffice
> 
> Yes it does.  To be sure, I created a new document by pasting a block of
> text into the newly launched Writer and tested for the problem.  It was not
> apparent.
> 
> I then saved the document and re-opened it in the normal way; the bug came
> back.  I exited the document without saving it and then re-opened it using
> the command above.  The bug was not apparent.

Thank you for the tests. So the problem is related to the backend kf5 for KDE.

I do not have KDE to test and confirm myself.
Added KDE in the summary.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 8 Michael Weghorn 2022-01-25 11:13:01 UTC
That sounds like it might be the same issue as described in bug 145419 or bug 145261, which is fixed in LibreOffice 7.3.

Can you try whether this still happens with the upcoming LibreOffice 7.3?
(download available e.g. here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=rpm-x86_64&version=7.3.0&lang=en-US )
Comment 9 Terry Coles 2022-01-25 12:18:27 UTC
(In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #8)
> That sounds like it might be the same issue as described in bug 145419 or
> bug 145261, which is fixed in LibreOffice 7.3.
> 
> Can you try whether this still happens with the upcoming LibreOffice 7.3?
> (download available e.g. here:
> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=rpm-x86_64&version=7.3.
> 0&lang=en-US )

That seems to have worked.  I was able to change both Styles and Character formatting using the drop boxes in the main menu.

Thanks.
Comment 10 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2022-01-25 15:37:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 145419 ***