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(Get the code!)
(In reply to kolrac from comment #11)
> Also, adding an option to disable this feature means more complexity. Is the
> feature on or off, how will the ordinary user (possibly used to Excel which
> supports it) will figure it out? Not everybody reads the release notes. And
> what happens when or if the bug is fixed in X11 or in Wayland? (See
> <https:/
> <https:/
>
> So, IMHO, no option to disable this is needed for the reasons explained
> above.
This feature whose only purpose seems to be to mimic Excel conflicts with both software and hardware in the real world. The comments here have mentioned some software it conflicts with. In terms of hardware, the popular Cooler Master CMStorm keyboard uses the scroll lock key to turn the backlight on and off. The keyboard is such that you need to have the backlight on, day or night, to see the key labels. This means that if you use LibreOffice you're either stuck in the bizarro scroll mode, meaning you can't use the keyboard to move around a spreadsheet, or you have to turn off the backlight, meaning you can't see the labels on your keys.
That said, using the latest LibreOffice, 6.1.0.3, in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and a CMStorm keyboard, the scrolling no longer occurs. I assumed LibreOffice turned it off until I found this page. If LibreOffice didn't make the change, I wonder if OpenSUSE did? Very weird.