Current LibreOffice Writer Unusable - Character Cursor Disappears?

[JeZxLee]

Hi,

Using Manjaro KDE with the "Testing branch.
Current LibreOffice Writer is unusable - the character cursor disappears?

Any ideas?

Jesse

[tuxmanjarino]

what is current?

[JeZxLee]

v7.2.3.2

[tuxmanjarino]

and searching didn’t help you? Search results for 'testing libreoffice' - Manjaro Linux Forum

[JeZxLee]

That link was rather unhelpful

[freggel.doe]

@JeZxLee

Any ideas?

Depends on what your goal is: is switching to libreoffice-still an option?
Did you try safe mode:

$ libreoffice --safe-mode

Another user experienced problems lately and fixed those be resetting their libreoffice config:

Libreoffice-fresh (testing branch) broken?

I was thinking what I can do to test it and recalled I can check my test user. And… the issue didn’t exist there! So this is a config problem! No wonder why you can’t confirm it. I deleted the .config/libreoffice and the issue is fixed! I’m ashamed that I didn’t figure it out earlier. On my defense, the issues were numerous and quite unspecific, showing up and disappearing depending on installed rebuild, which indicated strongly an issue on that side. However, it was something on my side that …

[bayvista]

By starting in --safe-mode and doing a Factory Reset I managed to get Writer working again.

[tuxmanjarino]

you mean you tried what the user did in the 3rd link and it still didn’t work?

Libreoffice-fresh (testing branch) broken?

I was thinking what I can do to test it and recalled I can check my test user. And… the issue didn’t exist there! So this is a config problem! No wonder why you can’t confirm it. I deleted the .config/libreoffice and the issue is fixed! I’m ashamed that I didn’t figure it out earlier. On my defense, the issues were numerous and quite unspecific, showing up and disappearing depending on installed rebuild, which indicated strongly an issue on that side. However, it was something on my side that …

[JeZxLee]

Starting in “Safe Mode” and factory reset solved the issue in Writer, thanks!

Jesse