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
-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
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:-
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)
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.
> -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”.
> -install the vanilla version from LibreOffice website
Have you experiences with doing this? I wouldn’t have a problem to set
up a local repository with this but i don’t know how good or bad this
rpms works together with opensuse in the case of dependencies.
>> -install the vanilla version from LibreOffice website
>
> Have you experiences with doing this?
no, i was only relaying information from the bug report…that is, i was
not making a recommendation…
> I wouldn’t have a problem to set
> up a local repository with this but i don’t know how good or bad this
> rpms works together with opensuse in the case of dependencies.
well, to me it seems like a lot of work just to avoid pressing the arrow
keys to go left/right!!
here, let me recommend: do like i do and use the arrow keys while
waiting for upstream to fix…
I’m not the only one with the same problem. That’s fine. It seams that the horizontal bar became more thick and only when the mouse is very near its upper part it works. Hope the bug will be fixed soon (I keep all my documentation in it )
> well, to me it seems like a lot of work just to avoid pressing the
> arrow keys to go left/right!!
The intention of mine was more to have the possibility to use 3.4.3 (or
3.3.x) because with the combination of libreoffice-gnome and qtcurve
all works fine under kde with the last version from opensuse. The
libreoffice-kde has the problem too that it forgot even the last window
size but this is another story.
I would like to add: after the last update scroll bar freeze was not the only problem: Calc crashes when you move sheets with mouse and shift. After removing of libreoffice-kde4 package everything works fine: no problems with scroll bar and no problems with sheets. It seams the problem is with this package
