Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fixing 5.0 appearance

On 12/23/2017 10:26 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> <snip>
> At this point I should also add that there has long been a bug with
> floating toolbars on all Linux installations that I know of - that is,
> if you have a toolbar floating it defeats the normal focus actions of
> the Linux X-windows GUI. An example would make this more clear. Let us
> suppose that I have only one Writer document window open on the screen.
> While working on it I discover that I need to use another program, e.g.,
> Firefox, so I switch to a Firefox window, leaving the Writer document
> on the screen. The Firefox window will come up on top of the Writer
> document, as it should, but when I later minimize the Firefox window I
> see the Writer document is now completely visible again, but focus has
> not been restored to it. And that means that clicking on its icon in the
> Xfce panel will not minimize it until I click on the window to restore
> its focus. Also, when I later restore a Writer document window quite
> often the floating formatting toolbar fails to appear. I can go into
> View > Toolbars and I see that it is still checked, but to get it back I
> have to un-check it, then re-check it. And when I restore a document to
> the screen by clicking on it in the Xfce panel it comes up on the
> screen, but again without focus. I wish there was a hotkey to open the
> Formatting toolbar, like F11 for the Styles toolbar, but I can't find
> one. I tried to create one, but I failed.
>
> I have lived with this bug since forever, with all versions on OO and
> now LO. I was hoping that this would have finally been fixed in the new
> LO 5.4, but it remains unchanged. And a few years ago I asked on one of
> these lists and after much discussion I tracked the problem down to my
> floating toolbars, that is, if none of my floating toolbars are on the
> screen the document window takes focus as it should, like all other
> application windows. Also, the problem is specific to each individual
> document window, e.g., as I write this I have three Writer documents
> open, I closed the floating toolbars on one of them and that window then
> took focus properly, but I left the toolbars on the other two
> documents and they still did not take focus properly.
>
> <snip>
Greetings,
I, too, use xfce4 and this window focus problem might not be an LO 
issue. I use several other apps and have experienced this frustrating 
focus problem with them too. I usually don't notice it until after I 
type some text and discover the text is not showing up in the window I 
expected. It would be an interesting datapoint if someone in this forum 
who uses KDE or another Linux desktop would confirm or deny they 
experience it with those desktops.

Girvin Herr


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