[libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

Hi all; a very weird issue has been found by my wife, which I can repeat 
on a separate machine. Both use LO 7.3.7.2 on Mint 21.

What happens is this. Take an odt file, open it in Writer then go to 
'Save As'. The expected behaviour is that the filename in the dialogue 
box will be filled in and selected/highlighted and there'll be no file 
type appended. Eg, I open yyy.odt, and 'Save As' displays just 'yyy' 
(highlighted).

However, sometimes and for no apparent reason, the dialogue box instead 
displays filename and file type ('yyy.odt'), with the type (only) 
highlighted. This causes issues when trying to save as a different type 
(eg as .docx)

Even more odd is that simply copying  (^C, ^V in a file manager) a 
wrongly-behaving file to a different directory can change the behaviour.

I wondered if my wife had managed to include some weird character, but
the filename /looks/ kosher: 'ls -1 | od -cb' shows nothing untoward. 
And indeed, one or two of my own files show the same behaviour. (I 
rarely use 'Save As' anyway.)


I'm at a bit of a loss about where to check next. Has anyone else 
experienced this please and can say what's happening?

TIA.


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Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England


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