LibreOffice scroll bar freeze

[David676]

Earlier today I accepted all the updates to my SuSE system, and now the LibreOffice horizontal scroll bar will not work. It is frozen in Writer and in Calc you can move it once from its start position, and then it becomes stuck. The problem is not confined to SuSE. A similar problem is mentioned half way through a slackware forum at

Alien Pastures

Please, how can I undo these updates?

My system is:-
Linux 2.6.37.6-0.7-default i686
System: openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"
LibreOffice 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:1206)

I think that one of these updates caused the problem, but I dont know which and I dont know how to revert to an earlier version of Libre Office.

2011-10-19 16:16:05|install|libreoffice|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|1683cb63bacecbbdb5962cf396e8be25515090df
2011-10-19 16:16:10|install|libreoffice-l10n-ru|3.4.2.6-1.3.1|noarch||repo-update|190891324dd2853318e950e504c1d97150616398
2011-10-19 16:16:12|install|libreoffice-help-de|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|noarch||repo-update|24346c299fba07c2117e85f281717905734411cd
2011-10-19 16:16:12|install|libreoffice-draw|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|71f54ee72a2e89a274a83a714a275b8bcb85318a
2011-10-19 16:16:14|install|libreoffice-base|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|33b0f43035c5d002a6a8d240b57f1475d3abf86e
2011-10-19 16:16:16|install|libreoffice-writer|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|02cba5ba06687eebebfa333ecf14f2095ff76a20
2011-10-19 16:16:16|install|libreoffice-l10n-de|3.4.2.6-1.3.1|noarch||repo-update|d4f999faf9395ee60a979e5385376855faf85e2f
2011-10-19 16:16:18|install|libreoffice-pyuno|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|8cd6ca564888748157317f05d84273c1994ea884
2011-10-19 16:16:18|install|libreoffice-impress|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|b922ce2e45dfa0e0d065baa38db818c4483783ec
2011-10-19 16:16:18|install|libreoffice-math|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|f8ba3023270b6934a474d30202be19d4a44f6c58
2011-10-19 16:16:19|install|libreoffice-l10n-en-GB|3.4.2.6-1.3.1|noarch||repo-update|45b09a2ad9e6153b6300342cc9ef9afe902ed327
2011-10-19 16:16:21|install|libreoffice-help-ru|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|noarch||repo-update|90da6aadc42afe2fcd972dfa3772a99de4014122
2011-10-19 16:16:22|install|libreoffice-help-en-GB|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|noarch||repo-update|72834db451d62fcd81ea2fc86afcd0660f5ef778
2011-10-19 16:16:23|install|libreoffice-help-en-US|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|noarch||repo-update|4aa5d1adf935326a80bef9609452063a5ae252ee
2011-10-19 16:16:24|install|libreoffice-calc|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|25145fa31e50878c8283c8d46b87e1a6807d3001
2011-10-19 16:16:28|install|libreoffice-mailmerge|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|8cd121048b9a28170efcf8fca99638dedcbbb506
2011-10-19 16:16:31|install|libreoffice-base-drivers-mysql|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|bec6a621b4d0bfdb7ed7ada0b8bca87887fe8e4a
# 2011-10-19 16:16:32 libreoffice-filters-optional-3.4.2.6-2.3.1.i586.rpm installed ok
# Unregistering the older LibreOffice optional filter extensions...
2011-10-19 16:16:32|install|libreoffice-filters-optional|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|97095e4ef1255d7d62237b6ba6e460ef2d83acbd
2011-10-19 16:16:32|install|libreoffice-kde4|3.4.2.6-2.3.1|i586||repo-update|8feac210f26c5b43cbed73ae6dff41599c1ed14c

[JJMT]

Same problem.

[lenwolf]

Hi,

a workaround

hitting SHIFT and moving the mouse scroll wheel moves the horizontal scroll bar around.

HTH

Lenwolf

[robin_listas]

On 2011-10-19 22:36, David676 wrote:

> Please, how can I undo these updates?

Version tab in yast.

> My system is:-
> Linux 2.6.37.6-0.7-default i686
> System: openSUSE 11.4 (i586)
> KDE: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) "release 6"
> LibreOffice 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:1206)

It works for me. Gnome.

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

[DenverD]

On 10/20/2011 02:36 AM, JJMT wrote:
>
> Same problem.

it has been reported and will be worked, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718357

other work-arounds:

-problem only seen in KDE4, (run gnome, lxde, etc)

-use YaST to remove libreoffice-kde4 "package and now the problem is
gone. A shame though that I end up with libre office looking like a mid
90-ies application"

-run LO portable 3.4.3 in wine

-use the arrow keys to scroll back and forth

-install the vanilla version from LibreOffice website

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[David676]

Thank you DenverD JJMT for your help.

I have discovered that the mouse middle (roller) button will work both horizontal and vertical scroll bars, so that is my work around. The left hand mouse button will only work the vertical scroll bar. The same bug has also been reported as duplicate bugs here:-

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41670
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41907

[repanoid]

The same problem. I have a horizontal scroll works if you click the mouse wheel instead of the left mouse button.

[cmcgrath5035]

I had a similar issue - somewhere saw this fix:
System Settings-Application Appearance-Style, set Widget Style to GTK+ Style
It solves the horizontal bar issue, at least for me (11.4_6a, KDE 4.7.2)

[F_Sauce]

I also note that not all of the LibreOffice packages installed have updates available, and some of those are removed due to dependencies. I don't know whether this matters in regard the topic, but I didn't update as I was uncertain to what it involved.

[Ferenginar]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:04:55 GMT DenverD wrote:

> -use YaST to remove libreoffice-kde4 "package and now the problem is
> gone. A shame though that I end up with libre office looking like a
> mid 90-ies application"

If you use qtcurve than you can install libreoffice-gnome to have a
"newer look".