Bug 86994 - FILESAVE: Pressing Alt key during save process freezes LibreOffice momentarily
Summary: FILESAVE: Pressing Alt key during save process freezes LibreOffice momentarily
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.3.4.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2014-12-04 03:48 UTC by JDGA
Modified: 2020-01-22 14:55 UTC (History)
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Description JDGA 2014-12-04 03:48:25 UTC
Current Behaviour: When saving a file, pressing Alt while the save is in progress (and the progress bar is visible in the status bar) pauses the save operation. The save resumes and completes normally upon clicking or pressing Alt again.

Expected Behaviour: When saving a file, pressing Alt would be ignored just like any other keystroke while the save is in progress.

This appears to be caused by an interaction with Windows, as the Alt press appears to "activate" the menu reached by clicking the LibreOffice icon in the top left of the window. This can be confirmed by pressing Enter after triggering the bug, as the menu will then appear. While this menu is active a window generally cannot be interacted with, but the save operation is also inexplicably paused.

Tested in Writer and Calc in LibreOffice 4.2.5.2 and 4.3.4.1 under Windows 8.1.
Comment 1 Tim Lloyd 2014-12-05 21:47:37 UTC
Confirmed under XP 4.2.0.4
Check under Fedora 21 where the problem is not apparent. As the OP notes this looks like a windows problem

Changing to NEW
Comment 2 Daniel 2014-12-10 07:46:32 UTC
I can also confirm this on 4.3.4.1 on Windows7 SP1 64Bit

I also tested on 4.2.7.2 on Fedora 20 and the bug does not exist there.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:13:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-01-03 19:48:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 14:26:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Julien Nabet 2020-01-22 14:55:41 UTC
On Win10 with LO 6.3.4, I don't reproduce this.

Let's put this one to WFM then.

If someone can reproduce this with last stable LO version, don't hesitate to reopen this tracker.