Bug 168344 - When i use the highlighter tool, the rest of the line after the highlighted content goes all white.
Summary: When i use the highlighter tool, the rest of the line after the highlighted ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.1.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: high major
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 168282 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Linux-Dark-Mode
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Reported: 2025-09-10 11:08 UTC by sabatm
Modified: 2025-09-12 05:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Video clearly describing the issue. (853.28 KB, video/mp4)
2025-09-10 11:10 UTC, sabatm
Details
video testing the bug (7.77 MB, video/webm)
2025-09-11 05:12 UTC, BogdanB
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Description sabatm 2025-09-10 11:08:49 UTC
Description:
When i use the highlighter tool, rest of the line after the highlighted content goes all white. This applies to a dark theme. Light theme does not show this phenomenon. Using openSUSE Tumbbleweed with GNOME on Wayland.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a dark theme in the Writer.
2. Write some text on multiple lines.
3. Try to highlight a part of the text with the highlighter tool.

Actual Results:
Rest of the text background on the line after the highlighted content goes all white and unreadable. (Like if it would highlight the rest of the text white)

Expected Results:
Writer not highlighting anything not selected and not in a different color than selected.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
That's all.
Comment 1 sabatm 2025-09-10 11:10:07 UTC
Created attachment 202772 [details]
Video clearly describing the issue.
Comment 2 Telesto 2025-09-11 03:02:49 UTC
Is this a general issue. Even with a new blank document with few lines of text? Or specific to certain file (or even file format)
Comment 3 BogdanB 2025-09-11 05:10:48 UTC
I confirm with a dark theme, "Use white document background" needs to be unchecked, and Document background "Automatic".

Just highlight some words/characters from a line and all the line became white and can not be read anymore.

I will make a video in a moment.

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 BogdanB 2025-09-11 05:12:32 UTC
Created attachment 202785 [details]
video testing the bug
Comment 5 BogdanB 2025-09-11 05:16:43 UTC
*** Bug 168282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 kaesezeh 2025-09-11 15:23:26 UTC
Update: It seems this is restricted to LibreOffice Writer on Linux (POP OS): when I open the same doc in LO 25.8.1.1  on Win 11, things seem to be ok.
Comment 7 kaesezeh 2025-09-11 15:24:18 UTC
I have so far only encountered this with this one document.
Comment 8 sabatm 2025-09-12 05:25:10 UTC
I am encountering it with every new or later opened document with already written text, tested with DOCX and ODT.