Oh I see, yes there is a tiny "Find Text" box that appears in the upper- right edge of one of my toolbars, but even when I click on the arrow button to expand it, some extra functions are available but still no text box to see what I'm searching for. So this bug seems to go back to a design flaw. This toolbar is on the extreme right-hand side of my screen, and there's no text box. I now see how I can move it to the left side, in which case the text box appears. But to have it as one toolbar among others, and to make it so the whole thing can disappear off the edge of the screen, doesn't make any sense. Why put it in a toolbar as opposed to (as the vast majority of applications do these days) in a little text box in one corner of the main text area (as in Firefox or Gedit). As-is it gets lost very easily.
-- 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/876558 Title: Libreoffice "Find" window invisible Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since upgrading to oneiric, whenever I press Ctrl-F or click on Edit -> Find in LibreOffice, no dialogue window appears, yet I can still enter a search term (without any visual feedback) and press Enter and LibreOffice will find the first instance of the word. Strangely, "Find and Replace" still brings up the window. Only simple "Find" doesn't work correctly. I thought this was a problem with Unity's compositing, but then I tried LibreOffice under 2d Gnome and have the same problem consistently. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 17 16:06:38 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/876558/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
