Bug 27360

Summary:	Special character window in LibreOffice writer opens too large, cannot be resized
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	aguador <waterbearer54>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ouaurelien
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description aguador 2020-10-05 15:37:30 CEST

When trying to insert a special character in LibreOffice, the window to select the character opens very large, with the table cells elongated and essentially unreadable.

Moving the cursor to edge of the window it looks as if the window can be resized, but in fact it cannot.


Applies to LibreOffice 7.0.2.1, at least in Writer


To reproduce:
   1. Open a document and choose Insert > Special Character
   2. Overly large, elongated window opens to find and select the character

This does not happen in the 6.4.xx version in Mageia 7.

Comment 1 aguador 2020-10-05 15:38:39 CEST

I should have added that I checked upstream and did not come across a bug report like this, so am reporting it here.

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-10-05 15:53:49 CEST

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.

Can you provide a screenshot to what you encounter?
Can you also tell me what is your screen resolution?


As I tested this, I can't reproduce it.
My screen resolution is 1920x1080.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => ouaurelien

Comment 3 aguador 2020-10-05 17:31:02 CEST

Color me red! I cannot reproduce it either!

I checked a LO 7 I have on the machine in Win7 and there was no problem. Having restarted Mageia, it seems the problem went away. Stupid, momentary glitch of some sort.

Sorry for the noise, closing this.

PS this is on a second gen i5 laptop with 1366x768 resolution.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME

Comment 4 aguador 2020-11-16 21:04:01 CET

I am reopening this as it seems transient. This happened to me earlier today with 7.0.3.1, but resolved after a restart. Just now the table opened with only a few characters "present" in the form of full stops -- and only the Basic Latin subset.

This is with the es_ES language pack, so will try to determine more tomorrow and running with en_US.

Resolution: WORKSFORME => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED

Comment 5 aguador 2020-12-01 12:37:22 CET

The problem has not reappeared and I have to assume that it was related to a corrupted profile on my machine.

Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED