Bug 166356 - LibreOffice notebookbar & groupedbar toolbar expanders do not close on click, and randomly interfere with window management and focus grab for dialogs windows
Summary: LibreOffice notebookbar & groupedbar toolbar expanders do not close on click,...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Blocks: Wayland Notebookbar-Groupedbar Notebookbar-Tabbed
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Reported: 2025-04-26 15:10 UTC by Jeff Fortin Tam
Modified: 2025-12-27 18:06 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-04-26 15:10:25 UTC 
Created attachment 200541 [details]
Demonstration video

Sometimes (most of the time), when you try clicking notebookbar buttons that were stuffed into an expander (») overflow widget, on Fedora 42's Wayland GNOME session, you will get:

* Dialog windows that completely refuse to show up, sometimes (such as the "Search and replace" dialog)

* Dialog windows that will show up, but the focus remains grabbed by the popup expander toolbar widget so it is impossible to interact with the widgets within the dialog window, such as comboboxes or other clickable elements other than notebook tabs or the titlebar.

Please see the attached demonstration video that makes the problem much clearer than a written description ever could. When you see those dropdown lists / combobox widgets becoming dark-gray in the video, that's because I am clicking on them, and their contents don't pop up.


Tested on:

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-04-26 15:31:26 UTC 
Note that while I had gnome-tweaks' "Attach Modal Dialogs" setting turned off during the recording of the video, the same behavior happens even if it is turned on (default setting).
Comment 2 Tasneem 2025-05-16 17:46:32 UTC 
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2025-12-26 13:24:54 UTC 
No repro. Still in 25.8?

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 640a35801612123fa503fa72e8732cfb7e75caca
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Built on 23 December 2025
Comment 4 Jeff Fortin Tam 2025-12-27 17:38:31 UTC 
Yup, I can still reproduce this easily with:

Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded


Are you folks also running Wayland (in my case, GNOME 48.7's Wayland session)?
It happens to me on all computers, even with a single screen (laptop monitor),
so it's not something related to multi-monitors.
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2025-12-27 18:06:49 UTC 
(In reply to Jeff Fortin Tam from comment #4)
> Are you folks also running Wayland (in my case, GNOME 48.7's Wayland
> session)?

Sure, but with KDE.