Bug 159820 - EDITING: Buggy document navigation/scrolling after moving cursor
Summary: EDITING: Buggy document navigation/scrolling after moving cursor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155266
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.4.1 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
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Reported: 2024-02-21 12:31 UTC by Jan
Modified: 2024-02-21 15:20 UTC (History)
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Description Jan 2024-02-21 12:31:12 UTC
Description:
What: Graphical bugs. PageScrolling really buggy - Curser Positions is not displayed properly, paragraphs will merge and overlay/overlap. Makes it very difficult to work on existing text. 

When: Within LibreOffice Writer - When clicking anywhere on the document to move the Cursor to a new position. Also when trying to highlight text paragraphs or copying and pasting text. Basically any action that moves the cursor except for typing new text will lead to buggy graphical navigation within the document. 

Exception: when moving the cursor with the arrow keys, the buggy behavior rarely occurs. 

Solution: Vigorously scrolling up and down sometimes resets to normal view. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open any file with pre-existing text (regardless if .odt or.docx)
2.Try to highlight text in order to copy it

Actual Results:
Text won't highlight, behavior will get buggy, scrolling will result in overlapping text

Expected Results:
It should behave like any text processing program and just move the cursor, highlight text and display everything correctly. 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Has not been the case when I used libreoffice 7.2 some while ago. I reinstalled Libreoffice and now it's basically unusable.
Comment 1 steve 2024-02-21 14:20:22 UTC
Probably a duplicate of https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155266

Could you install LibreOffice nightly build and see if the problem persists using that build:
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/

Note for testers: the nightly master builds install in /Applications/LibreOfficeDev.app. These builds are not codesigned like regular LibreOffice releases so you will need to execute the following Terminal command after installation but before you launch /Applications/LibreOfficeDev:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreOfficeDev.app

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155266 ***
Comment 2 Patrick (volunteer) 2024-02-21 15:20:33 UTC
(In reply to steve from comment #1)
> Probably a duplicate of
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155266
> 
> Could you install LibreOffice nightly build and see if the problem persists
> using that build:
> https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/
> 

Note: if you don't want to install a nightly build, the fix for tdf#155266 is currently available in LibreOffice 24.2 which you can download from the LibreOffice download page:

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Also, LibreOffice 7.6.5 will also have the fix when it released in the next few weeks.