[Bug 163121] Add a toggle to make "Mouse pointer as pen" markings permanent or temporary

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163121

--- Comment #9 from Aidar <aidar at outlook.com> ---
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #8)
> 
> Enable Mouse pointer as PEN in the Slideshow settings _before_ you start the
> slide show. Do you still get such huge number of objects then?

@Regina, thank you so much for your kind offer and the relevant macros! 

I will be using https://ask.libreoffice.org/c/english/5 for macros-related
inquiries then. 

On the first glance, if there are no “Mouse as a PEN” markings in the new
presentation, the macros starts, oLayerManager.hasByName("DrawnInSlideshow")
condition evaluates to false, the macros ends. 

On the other hand, if there are “Mouse as a PEN” markings,
oLayerManager.hasByName("DrawnInSlideshow") seems to be always true, regardless
of how many times the loop executes. Laptop CPU is at about 12,5% (which means
one of its cores is at 100% serving the loop), fan becomes noisy, macros has to
be stopped manually after few minutes.

It seems to be more efficient though to try to address the underlying cause,
leaving finding out why LibreOffice Impress 24.8.1.2 does not obey macros’
instructions to clear out all the sticky traces of “Mouse as a PEN” markings to
a later stage.

As for “Mouse pointer as PEN”, my understanding is that there are two places
where it can be enabled:

(1) Upper Menu “Slide Show” ->  “Slide Show Settings” -> “Mouse pointer as PEN”
I always exclusively have been using the Upper Menu.

(2) Right-click on the running Slide Show (Context Menu).
I never use this one, because for some reason context menu does not show up
upon 1st right-click. Instead, greyed out Cut-Copy-Paste shows up, as shown on
attached screenshot. Sometimes, Fullscreen exits upon right-click to show
greyed out Cut-Copy-Paste. Proper context menu shows up upon 2nd right-click.

So, to answer your question, when I reproduce the problem, naturally, Enable
Mouse pointer as PEN in the Slideshow settings is always enabled _before_ I
start the slide show. That is the only way I use it, and it consistently yields
such a huge number of objects.

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