Description: For some reason, when I enter a text box to modify the text in it, the drawing toolbar on the left disappears, and it reappears when leaving the text box. I can make it reappear when I am in a textbox when I go view>toolbars and check the drawing toolbar, but then upon exiting and reentering the textbox is is gone again. The resulting moving around of the drawing image each time is rather annoying, both just visually and also when I am selecting an object with my mouse to leave the textbox, that object is now at a different location. The redraw also takes time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open draw 2.Add textbox and a line 3.Edit text in textbox 4 Select line Actual Results: In step 3 the drawing toolbar on the left disappears causing a redraw with everything moved to the left In step 4 the toolbar reappears, causing another redraw, and everything moves to the right again Expected Results: The toolbar should just stay present, the drawing should remain at the same location on the screen. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64) Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5 CPU threads: 20; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_BE); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
If you don't like that behavior, you can manually position the relevant toolbar below the application window.
I just tried that but then everything moves up and down io left/right (fyi putting it on the left also keeps moving things around ). I also tried putting it on the top, on a second row of icons, and somehow I had 2 'line and filling' toolbars on top (? not sure how that happened), one of those I I placed after the Drawing toolbar. And that 2ed line and filling toolbar remained present when I entered a textbox so the 2e row remained present too (though with empty gaps for the missing drawing toolbar) this keeping the image static . But then I wanted to clean up the double 'line and filling toolbar' by deleting one (first make it floating window, then top right X), and now the remaining one is also disappearing when i go in the textbox so the 2e row of icons disappears and everything moves up , and I am back to square one. (my screen is not wide enough to have both the standard toolbar and the drawing toolbar behind each other). If I could figure out how to make double toolbars appear that would probably be a hack, as it seems the second instance is not being hidden when entering a text box. I could put 2 of them under each other on the left side. But I have no idea how I managed to get 2 instances of the same toolbar (I think they were already there after installation, and I only saw it when I moved one of them from the top row of icons to a second row).
Ok my previous duplicated toolbar story actually gave me an idea for a workaround: - Customize the drawing toolbar with eg an extra visible item (this is just to get it as an xml file in your user dir) - In View>Toolbars>Customize, to to the Toolbars tab , click the burger icon next to Target and select add. Name the new toolbar MyDrawingToolbar or something. - Add eg the select icon to that toolbar (may not even be necessary but I want to make sure he does not throw it away if it is empty). - You could add all other drawing functionality there but there is a quicker way, close LibreOffice, and go to C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\config\soffice.cfg\modules\sdraw\toolbar\ (or wherever it is he saves it on a mac/linux). You will have a file toolbar.xml that holds to modified Drawing toolbar info, and a file custom_toolbar_xxxx.xml that holds your MyDrawingToolbar info. Just copy over the toolbar:toolbaritem lines with info about the different items in the toolbar (but make sure to keep the toolbar:toolbar line intact ). Restart libreoffice, put the new MyDrawingToolbar in the place of the standard drawing toolbar eg on the left, and deselect the original drawing toolbar from being shown. The magical disappearing act when you enter a textbox seems to leave added toolbars alone (for now), so you have a nice clean static GUI. Note: I am very sure I never had any custom toolbars before, so I am still wondering where the original duplicate came from, but good thing it did...
It's the nature of contextual toolbars to appear and disappear depending on where you are. We have many tickets about "jumping UI" and there is bug 38850 requesting more control over this. => duplicate Meanwhile you could make the toolbar floating (right click, uncheck Lock Toolbar Position, and drag it away from its dock). And there are the alternative UIs such as the Tabbed Notebookbar (View > User Interface...) with a different approach as known from Microsoft's ribbons. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38850 ***