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Hi 
Have you tried renaming your User Profile yet?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
That often fixes weird things that shouldn't happen = particularly if
they haven't always happened and just started mysteriously one day for
no apparent reason (perhaps after adding a new Extension)
Regards from
Tom
Greetings,
I am not sure this is a LibreOffice problem. I have seen it in other applications, such as Firefox as well. I think it is an unstable mouse or mouse driver effect. I noticed it usually occurs when I am hovering the mouse cursor in the vertical scroll bar. I found that clicking somewhere in the vertical scroll bar usually stops it. I haven't seen it lately, but then maybe I stopped hovering the mouse cursor in the vertical scroll bar.
Girvin Herr
I too have seen this a couple of times lately. I don't remember what I was
doing though.
Windows 7, 64 bit. I have LibreOffice installed but very rarely use it. I
use Outlook 2003 (MS Office 2003) for my email.
I bought a new computer in May of 2012 with LibreOffice 3.5 installed. The
spell checker didn't work in Writer didn't work. The only thing the private
shop that sold me the computer could tell me at the time was that
LibreOffice was having a problem and they would let me know when it was
fixed. This is when I signed on to this list.
Still frustrated, because I can's spell for s**t I demanded 'service' from
the shop that sold me my new computer. So they generously sold me a copy of
MS Office for $25, a reduction of $10 from their usual price of $35 sold
only with a new computer.
I saw this behavior of the screen scrolling down to the bottom of the
vertical scroll bar (I believe on a web page, or in Outlook 2003, as I
looked on helplessly.
Of course it's possible I was in LibreOffice somewhere looking for a problem
reported here to see if I could see it. For the last 8 years of my working
career, going from railroading to QA in a small software publishing house,
and then another. Four years in each.
-Dan Hall
I have also noticed this in various programs. Clicking in the scroll bar does stop it, and I haven't had it scroll past where the cursor is (if it's still in the scroll bar). This is primarily in newer versions of software, and my suspicion is that it's related to programming for mobile devices or tablets. I do have one application where clicking in the scroll bar causes the list to jump to the point where the click was done; I'll see if the developers can tell me whether there's any correlation.
Dave Liesse
I suspect that this is a feature of the mouse driver, and that it works in a variety of programs.
I have noticed that when scrolling up or down thru a document using the scroll-wheel of the mouse. Something I do turns on an 'automated' scroll. I'll notice a new symbol on the screen (light blue and transparent, if I remember correctly). If I move the mouse pointer to be horizontal with that symbol, the scrolling will stop. If I move the pointer above the symbol, the document will scroll toward the top. If I move the pointer below it, then the document will scroll toward the bottom.
If I remember correctly, hitting [esc] will kill this 'automated' scroll.
-- Tim Deaton
Hi
I had forgotten but i've had this in the dim&distant past too but it's
usually been a hardware/hygiene issue.
To solve tons of these sorts of irritations i've had success doing
things such as unplugging the mouse and then plugging it back in again
(sometimes to a different usb-port), cleaning the mouse (or surface of
the track-pad) and the mouse-pad (or chucking it and using the
table-top instead until that gets dirty too), rebooting the machine
(this one has obviously been tried). Running standard update
procedure for which-ever OS. Even once or twice updating drivers for
the "Human Interface Device" (ie, mouse) (errr, only in Windows
because other OSes automatically update drivers as part of the
standard update). I've even completely dismantled a few mice
(mouses?), even optical ones (when unplugged jic) and been amazed at
the weird gunk inside.
With keyboards it's a good idea to shake them upside-down but avoid
being under it as the shower of paper-clips (even tho i've not used
any nor been anywhere near paper-clips for about a decade they still
seem to appear), crumbs, weird dust, hairs that don't even look human
(hopefully). I've even dismantled a few and thoroughly cleaned but
then been unable to get the space-bar back in (isn't that where
astronauts drink?).
Anti-bac wipes across keyboards and mices surfaces shouldn't hurt much
either, right?
At client's or colleagues desks i just plug in a 'new' one, check it
works and take the old one away to clean it (or bin it) out-of-sight.
Not possible for a track-pad obviously! For them a wipe with a dryish
damp cloth and then one of those cotton buds (that shouldn't be used
for cleaning ears) to twizzle around the edges.
I tend to see all this as fairly routine maintenance (ie to be avoided
at all costs until it's too late and i regret not doing it all
earlier). Even the cleanest and most hygienic people shed skin over
the years, plus skins have natural oils to protect against all-sorts
@ Dan Hall, please post as a fresh new question. Actually the
international translators occasionally solve this problem quite often
for people. Generally it's due to things like the regionalisation of
the Operating System mis-matching the language installed with
LibreOffice or
Tools - Options - Language Settings
not having the correct language selected. Sometimes the correct
dictionaries are not installed on the OS so there's nothing for LO to
grab onto. Most of these sorts of things are more likely in Windows
but they occasionally happen in other OSes too. Please let people
know which OS (Xp, right?) when you post the fresh new question.
Really kind of the shop to set it up wrong and then sell you more
stuff! Around where i live therre are tons of shops but only 2 i
trust as almost all the others have shafted me over the years. Pc
World seems to be the worst although Currys/Dixons were appalling the
one time a client used them (and apparently ripped of tons of other
people over the whole Sony Vaio case too). The 2 i trust are small
independent businesses that actually deliver more than they promise.
Regards from
Tom
I have had that same "uncontrolled" mouse scrolling before. Yes it seemed to be the mouse driver[s].
Never seen that "light blue" icon before, but I rarely use Windows and then it is mostly USB mice using default Windows internal drivers, not drivers from any media or downloads.
I would not want to keep scrolling when I stop moving my mouse. I could not stand it when it happened that one time.
The only scrolling option in LO seems to be "smooth scrolling", which seems to be checked as default with my DEB 64 bit install of 4.2.2.1.
If you press straight down on the mouse wheel and listen carefully you
should hear a click and then the icon (a double arrow pointing up and down
with a dot between them) appears. I believe it's a mouse 'feature' so you
can scroll up and down the page without holding down the left mouse button.
I often activate that feature accidently when using the mouse wheel.
I'm using Windows 7.
-Dan Hall
I think I made a faux pas. Sorry everyone!
-Dan Hall
Good morning
Maybe(?) I solved the mystery.
I use a trackball instead of a mouse:
ball in the middle, buttons left and right.
Apparently thoses buttons do not only respond to clicking = pressing, but also "pulling".
If you drag your finger across the button, if works somehow like pulling a mouse.
I never noticed this little "trick" (at least not consciously) before.
Maybe, if I keep my finger a little more quiet, I can also shut up and stop bothering the list.
Sorry for the commotion!
Thomas
(2014/03/24 6:53), Dan Hall wrote:
Hi Tim
That happens sometimes when you "click" the mouse wheel. The wheel
doesn't look like a button but it often is on mice (mouses. micii?)
made in the last few years.
If you are not on Windows then you can probably configure it,
'globally' (ie for all apps on your machine), to do something else or
to do nothing.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
lqtm It's been quite a good thread imo, with useful ideas which
may lead to better work-flow and/or save a bit of money by helping be
able to fix stuff. So it's not been a waste of time and didn't
"bother the list"
I use a track-ball at work. At first it was really difficult to get
the finesse i am used to from using a mouse but that only took a
couple of weeks to get close enough and now i think it's even better.
One advantage is that you can do really fine-grained stuff and then
scoot really fast across vast distances by letting the ball roll with
minimal effort. With a mouse you have to physically pick up the mouse
several times to cover the same sort of distance. To start with i
need lots of course-corrections at the end but now i tend to hit the
target much more often.
Of course i took the ball out and found tons of fluff in there but
tipping it upside-down let most of it fall out (quite handy because i
only got the ball out in the first place by turning it upside (try not
to do that above your face or cuppa tea or keyboard!)). One of those
cotton-buds that you shouldn't clean your ears with is good for doing
cleaning the 3 little contacts inside.
Everything people have been saying about drivers and updates is still
relevant too of course
The main thing is that it's good to hear you have solved the problem!! :))
Congrats and regards from
Tom