Bug 170318 - Drop down menus are blank in shrunken windows on external monitor.
Summary: Drop down menus are blank in shrunken windows on external monitor.
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
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Reported: 2026-01-13 03:36 UTC by Jay York
Modified: 2026-01-13 04:39 UTC (History)
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Description Jay York 2026-01-13 03:36:38 UTC
Description:
My office set-up (Windows 11 laptop plus large external monitor) launches Libre Office -- home screen, Calc, Draw or Write -- on demand to the full screen on an external monitor.  When I shrink the Libre Office window to less than full screen on the external monitor ALL drop down menus are blank.  When I drag any reduced screen back to my laptop screen the drop downs all re-populate.  When I drag the same reduced screen back to the external monitor, the drop downs remain populated?

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set Libre Office to open full screen on external monitor (mine scales up to ~ 150%
2. Close & re-open Libre Office, either by double-clicking a document or launching Libre Office. (didn't try launching one of the apps w/o a document) and shrink the screen to something less than full screen
3. Close & re-open Libre Office or a document.  Click any drop down; they're empty.

Actual Results:
Blank menus until I drag the same window back to the laptop screen.  Then the menus re-populate.

NOTE! Resetting profile seems to have resolved the issue BUT when I first moved the LibreOffice screen from the laptop to the external monitor the Libre Office window only -- not the rest of images -- went spastic, jittering all over its window.  When I expanded & reduced the Libre Office window the jittering stopped.

Started all over with brand new user settings (very few changes from "factory settings"

Expected Results:
Drop down menus should always be populated.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: DrawingDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows !! Home
OS is 64bit: yes
Laptop: Acer Swift X14; Intel Core Ultra 7; Nvidia Geforce RTX Studio
External monitor: Dell ~28"

Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 22; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2026-01-13 04:39:27 UTC
Please test disable Menu>Tools>Options>LibreOffice>View>Force Skia software rendering.

Another thing to test is update Nvidia driver directly from Nvidia.