When I am editing a long document in Writer and making few changes, the page keeps reverting to the last cursor position. Is there a setting to stop this from happening?
Hello milpas, it is for me not clear what you mean.
The last cursor position is where you are currently typing … unless you mean the mouse cursor?
If I finished editing for instance in the third paragraph and then continue reading while scrolling down with my mouse roller, I may well be a page or two beyond in my reading when the writer jumps back to where the cursor is, ie the third para.
i’m sorry @milpas, i do not have enough knowledge to come up with a solution to this problem. It might be related to gtk ( see this bug report 1294208 ). One suggestion you could try is to start up your LibreOffice using a different VCLPLUGIN from the command line, such as:
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk libreoffice --writer
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 libreoffice --writer
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice --writerThis tends to happen when “autosave” is doing its job. See for example this report:
Bug 41063 - Saving/Autosaving (Save/Autosave) while in table causes view to jump to cursor position
and the all the others linked there.