I've the same problem under Lubuntu Quantal, that's a recent regression, when selecting some text and scrolling at some point the selection vanishes and you have only the cursor that moves but no more selection. Selecting text with the keyboard using arrow keys always works but with the mouse the selection vanishes.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061227 Title: Cannot select text reliably with the mouse in OpenOffice Writer Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When in LibreOffice Writer, text selection with the mouse will sometimes work, sometimes not and is generally unreliable. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a Writer document in OpenOffice, 2. Press the left mouse on a piece of text and keep pressed, 3. Start dragging the mouse to select a piece of text. Expected behaviour: The selected text is highlighted until you release the mouse button. Actual behaviour: More often than not, the text will stop being highlighted sometime during the drag, often when the drag goes over a word boundary but not always. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 3 21:48:08 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-22 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1061227/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
