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Here is one page from a presentation that contains many similar pages. The first equation is very slow to select in Linux (and not quick to de-select either) because it is drawn with curves in content.xml. Second equation is a PNG and is fast.

LO confirmed bug #156995 and added it as a blocker of #107810 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107810 Some of the blockers date back to 2011 so this issue is not likely to be addressed soon by LO.

Selecting the object in the LibreOffice Navigator pane is quick. Selecting the equation with the mouse pointer on the document canvas is slow. This may imply that the bug is in LibreOffice. The problem can be probably corrected much more easily by modifying TexMaths back to its previous SVG storage scheme than by fixing LO.

Selecting SVG equations with many elements very slow in Linux

Thank you for the minipage suggestion! It would be useful to control the width in the GUI. Perhaps display the default width of the texmaths libreoffice object and provide an option to override the width with a user defined value.