I’m wondering if this is something peculiar about my setup that no one else sees (and I should figure that out) or if its something that anyone with the basic setup below experiences:
Basic setup: I have two monitors on my workstation. I’m still on X11. Focus mode is follow mouse (does not require a click to give a window focus). I’ve got the same Calc spreadsheet open on both (via Window→New Window).
LibreOffice 7.4.5.1 (from Debian)
Steps:
- Go to Sheet→Named Ranges→Manage (or Control-F3) on the window on the right screen
- dialog pops up, oddly over the sheet on the left screen. Slightly annoying, but minor
- Move mouse over to the named ranges dialog to try to use it…
- … before I can get to it, that requires moving the mouse over the other Calc window (on the left screen, the one it popped up over)
- … dialog vanishes the instant the mouse hits the left screen spreadsheet, so you can’t actually use the dialog
- Move mouse back to the right-screen sheet, manage name dialog reappears. In the same spot, over on the left screen, where you can’t get to it.
This is, obviously, very aggravating. I’ve found a few workarounds (e.g., pull down a menu before leaving the right-screen window, move over to the dialog, then click which releases the menu but leaves the dialog up. Or temporarily minimize the left-screen window, or cover it with something else.) But using Calc would be much more pleasant if I didn’t have to deal with this.
(It’s not just that dialog, other non-global ones do it too).
Full version info:
Version: 7.4.5.1 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 40(Build:1)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.0; UI render: default; VCL: x11
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Debian package version: 4:7.4.5-2
Calc: threaded