Tapping on the body of LibreOffice Writer does not launch Onboard

[Sean Feole]

Nexus7 / Raring 13.04

After installing LibreOffice Writer / Impress on the Nexus7. I can't get Onboard to launch automatically when tapping in the middle of the page to type any sort of text. You need to select the Onboard Indicator -> Show Onboard and force onboard to appear.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Uninstall libreoffice-gtk package if you have it.
2. Launch Writer, Terminal, and Nautilus.
3. Switch to Nautilus window, and observe that Onboard hides.
4. Switch to Terminal window, and observe that Onboard appears.
5. Switch to Writer window, and observe that Onboard hides.

Expected behavior: Switching to Writer window should make Onboard appear.

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

This seems to be a common problem across all of the LibreOffice products. Writer / Impress / etc.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Try installing libreoffice-gtk, this seems to solve it here. This package is installed by the libreoffice meta package, but apparently not when just selecting the individual applications.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Well, it does something, but there's a lot of erratic behavior. I remember Writer doing well some time ago, now it sends a de-focus event after typing just one character and Onboard hides. Calc seems to do worse. I'll have a look at their bug tracker.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Hmmmmm, libreoffice-gtk package seems to be erratic, I can't quite pin down how it impacts the behavior. I can definitely confirm experiencing this bug in Writer before I installed libreoffice-gtk, but then after installing libreoffice-gtk it sometimes still did this bug and sometimes didn't. Very odd.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Arent bugs 1090960 and bugs 1089462 dupes?

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

I'm setting this bug to Incomplete as it's not seen any activity since the official release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This bug has sat incomplete for 2 months. Marking invalid.