Bug 159580 - My selection is not showing in reverse background in writer
Summary: My selection is not showing in reverse background in writer
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.5.1 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2024-02-05 21:08 UTC by George.Pope_CCS@yahoo.com
Modified: 2024-02-06 01:32 UTC (History)
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Description George.Pope_CCS@yahoo.com 2024-02-05 21:08:13 UTC
Description:
I'm in Writer and editing a document; somehow I lost the selection view (reverse background in blue behind the letters); this makes it difficult to know what I'm cutting or copying. Per online searching, this is an unsolved problem for others, too.  This makes my product unusable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I don't know -- a trandom mis-typing of something, using an unknown modification key (Shift, Alt. &/or CTRL)
2. I think I may have been trying to go [CTRL]+[RT]
3.

Actual Results:
When I looked at my selection it looked like normal text, without the blue background normally associated with selected text.

Expected Results:
selection appears in reverse: blue background(black text) instead of white background; The selection should have appeared in blue background, so I can easily see what I'm about to cut. (CTRL+X)


Reproducible: Sometimes


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.4.5.1 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9c0871452b3918c1019dde9bfac75448afc4b57f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-CA (en_CA); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2024-02-06 01:32:21 UTC
The 7.4.5.1 build release is well past its end of life.

Please update your installation to 7.6.5 or 24.2.1 and retest. There has been considerable rework of the os/DE color theme support.