diff --git a/desktop/qa/desktop_lib/test_desktop_lib.cxx b/desktop/qa/desktop_lib/test_desktop_lib.cxx
index 0e666782564c..17002b7b75eb 100644
--- a/desktop/qa/desktop_lib/test_desktop_lib.cxx
+++ b/desktop/qa/desktop_lib/test_desktop_lib.cxx
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ public:
     void testSaveAsCalc();
     void testPasteWriter();
     void testRowColumnHeaders();
+    void testCellCursor();
     void testCommandResult();
 
     CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE(DesktopLOKTest);
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ public:
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testSaveAsCalc);
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testPasteWriter);
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testRowColumnHeaders);
+    CPPUNIT_TEST(testCellCursor);
     CPPUNIT_TEST(testCommandResult);
     CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END();
 
@@ -435,6 +437,24 @@ void DesktopLOKTest::testRowColumnHeaders()
     }
 }
 
+void DesktopLOKTest::testCellCursor()
+{
+    LibLODocument_Impl* pDocument = loadDoc("search.ods");
+
+    boost::property_tree::ptree aTree;
+
+    char* pJSON = pDocument->m_pDocumentClass->getCommandValues(pDocument, ".uno:CellCursor?tileWidth=1&tileHeight=1&outputWidth=1&outputHeight=1");
+
+    std::stringstream aStream(pJSON);
+    free(pJSON);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT(!aStream.str().empty());
+
+    boost::property_tree::read_json(aStream, aTree);
+
+    OString aRectangle(aTree.get<std::string>("commandValues").c_str());
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(aRectangle, OString("0, 0, 1278, 254"));
+}
+
 void DesktopLOKTest::testCommandResult()
 {
     LibLODocument_Impl* pDocument = loadDoc("blank_text.odt");
diff --git a/sc/source/ui/view/gridwin.cxx b/sc/source/ui/view/gridwin.cxx
index 3ab0f7387f69..9d6639b3be99 100644
--- a/sc/source/ui/view/gridwin.cxx
+++ b/sc/source/ui/view/gridwin.cxx
@@ -5789,13 +5789,10 @@ OString ScGridWindow::getCellCursor( int nOutputWidth, int nOutputHeight,
 }
 
 OString ScGridWindow::getCellCursor(const Fraction& rZoomX, const Fraction& rZoomY) {
-    ScDocument* pDoc = pViewData->GetDocument();
-    ScDrawLayer* pDrawLayer = pDoc->GetDrawLayer();
-
-    // GridWindows stores a shown cell cursor in mpOOCursors, hence
+    // GridWindow stores a shown cell cursor in mpOOCursors, hence
     // we can use that to determine whether we would want to be showing
     // one (client-side) for tiled rendering too.
-    if (!pDrawLayer->isTiledRendering() || !mpOOCursors.get())
+    if (!mpOOCursors.get())
     {
         return OString("EMPTY");
     }