After the previous update, 2025-03-05, and before this update I changed a configuration for libreoffice in
/etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh
by uncommenting: #export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4
Libreoffice 25.2 still worked well thereafter using the now gtk4 look’n feel.
However, after this update, 2025-03-18, if I want to edit a file, libreoffice enters a loop of wanting to ‘reconstruct the broken file’ as if it crashed whilst editing the file. Running from a terminal, this is the output (an example):
[Bertie@Rip ~]$ libreoffice -o MyManjaro.odt
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true
-Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel
free(): invalid pointer
Gtk-Message: 15:50:55.680: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
I think that the free():invalid pointer is the actual problem but tracing and correcting that could be difficult.
A solution that worked was to re-comment export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4. This reverted to the gtk3 look’n feel (which seems to be the default in any case).
Because before this update libreoffice worked with gtk4, I do not think the problem lies with libreofice (which was not updated) but rather with something else in the update??
(linux6.12.19, enlightenment, X11)
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