I agree that a more helpful error message would be helpful here. I am an
experience Ubuntu terminal user. However, it is not intuitive to me that
showkey should require root privileges. I would not have guessed this as
a solution to resolve this error.
A new error message could take several
I experienced this bug in Lubuntu 16.04, and found it made Abiword
unusable. I recently installed Lubuntu 17.04 on a different computer and
was disappointed to discover the bug is still present with my fresh
installation!
That said, I'm not 100% sure my bug is the same as what is reported here.
Could we get this fix pushed out into the repositories? It can be pretty
annoying and confusing to users if you have other issues which cause
application crashes fairly frequently.
For users to fix this:
1) Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal
2) Enter this command:
sudo apt install
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