Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can someone on OS X verify a writer bug? (bugzilla-link inside)

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:20:41 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 10/10/12 18:20, Dushan Mitrovich a écrit :
>
> > This time I opened a new spreadsheet and tried a couple of elementary
> > things. They worked, so I accessed Preferences and started to look at 
> > the General subheading under LibreOffice. After a few seconds, without 
> > my doing anything, the app hung.
> >
> > This happened two more times. Is there any way to get this app working 
> > under Mac OS X.6.8?
>
>
> Going into Preferences when you have Accessibility Tools activated, or a
> tool that uses them, is known to crash versions of LO up to 3.6.2. A
> recent fix that should be in 3.6.3 addresses the large majority of cases
> for which this crash happened, but there are still examples of this
> buggy behaviour with some AT-related tools, e.g. screenreaders, screen
> or document zoom tools, speech dictation tools, and the like.
>
> Some haxies were also known to do this too.
>
> The only option at present, if you are affected by crashes of that type,
> is to deactivate the accessibility tools (assistive technology in
> Apple's vocabulary) and the apps that LO doesn't like to play with.
>
> So, the advice for Mac people in this situation is : get the very latest
> production release, and with a bit of luck, things might be a lot better
> than they were, at least insofar as stability is concerned.
>
> Alex
 
Alex, thank you for this info - it finally tells me where to look.  In 
Mac OS
X.6.8, Accessibility Tools is called Universal Access, and yes, I do 
have
that turned on, for two reasons: to be able to magnify an area of the 
screen
on occasion, and to run Zooom 2, which provides focus-follows-mouse.  
Both of
these, and especially the latter, are very useful, so I'll wait for LO 
version
3.6.3 to see if that solves the crashing problem.

Thanks for pointing me out of limbo.

- Dushan

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