Using 13.10, Libreoffice 4.2, Gnome desktop I found a workaround - after re configuring my keyboard settings using 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' the Alt+Shift key combination for changing language works again.
This caused the following affects: Press Super+Space: language changes, gnome language change displays on center screen, top bar display changes, hotkeys in when in Hebrew layout don't work. Press Alt+Shift: language changes, top bar display changes, hotkeys in when in Hebrew **do** work. *But* - when using Thunderbird I have this behavior: Press Super+Space: language changes, gnome language change displays on center screen, top bar display changes, hotkeys work fine on both layouts. Press Alt+Shift: top bar display changes language, hotkeys work fine, but language does not change back to Hebrew (keeps typing in English even when top bar displays Hebrew). So the workaround is as follows: In LibreOffice - use Alt+Shift In Thunuderbird - use Super+Space. -- 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/1246583 Title: All hotkeys of LibreOffice don't work in non-English keyboard layout [ubuntu 13.10] Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “libreoffice” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Hotkeys (Ctrl+b, Ctrl+s etc) in LibreOffice are language dependent and work in English language only. While writing in any other language i.e. any Cyrillic, it's impossible to use hotkeys, they just don't do anything. Switching to English input language enable hotkeys once again. This is very frustrating as user needs to switch language to save document, to make it bold, or italic, etc. This was not experienced in Ubuntu 13.04. Steps to reproduce: 1. System Settings > Text Entry. 2. Add another keyboard layout beside English [In my case it is Bengali (Probhat)] 3. Now launch Writer. 4. Switch the keyboard layout from English (US) to Bengali (Probhat) by pressing Ctrl+Space. 5. Press Ctrl+B to change font weight to bold. Error: Font weight does not get changed. Expected: Font weight should change to bold. Note: none other system hotkeys work as expected. I.e. Ctrl+s to save, or Ctrl+b to subscript, or Ctrl+i to italic etc. Workaround: The only way is to - 1. change the keyboard layout to English 2. then press desired hotkey 3. then switch keyboard layout back to Bengali. The issue is critical, as it make writer very slow for keyboard-only typing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: libreoffice-core 1:4.1.2~rc3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 31 10:11:53 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-13 (170 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-26 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1246583/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
