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quiqueck

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Registered: 2013-04-15

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[Solved] LibreOffice: Text cursor in specific file dialogue missing

If i open a new file in LibreOfiice and use "File save as" the text cursor is shown in the file name edit box. All fine. If i open an existing file and choose "Save as" the text cursor is invisible in the file name edit box The latter happens regardless if i open the file from a file manger or open the file within LibreOffice's "Recent files".

Searching the web there are similar issues all proposing setting a different theme in "Options->View" or to disable hardware acceleration or edge smoothing but this doesn't solve the issue for me.

I am using KDE Plasma in an X11 session. Other GTK applications work fine, e.g. Gimp.

Any hints?

Last edited by quiqueck (2025-03-26 09:23:31)

seth

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Re: [Solved] LibreOffice: Text cursor in specific file dialogue missing

LO still or fresh?
Do the dialogs otherwise look the same?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Theme
LO is supposed to use the KDE file dialogs?
What happens if you change the SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN (rty eg. "generic"?)?

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quiqueck

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Registered: 2013-04-15

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Re: [Solved] LibreOffice: Text cursor in specific file dialogue missing

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Theme

What happens if you change the SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN (rty eg. "generic"?)?

I had changed the file

/etc/profile.d/libreoffice-still.sh

but did not know that a re-login was required to apply those change… I am using SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt6 now which seems to fix this ominous issue.

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf6 which i assumed also to be something kde-Plasma related, does not fix this.

Thanks for the hints!