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Importance: Undecided = High
** Changed in: unity
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Closing as wontfix in libreoffice (ubuntu) as comment 84 shows this
clearly needs to be fixed in indicator-appmenu and indicator-appmenu
only.
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The issue has been fixed in trusty
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.1.2+14.04.20140214.1-0ubuntu1
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
** Changed in: indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Assigning to Will in indicator-appmenu who deserves all the kudos and
karma for fixing this in trusty. ;)
** Changed in: indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = William Hua (attente)
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Using 13.10 64b Unity.
Found this fix to regain use of Menu Bar Hot Keys (Mnemonics):
Remove indicator-appmenu via Synaptic or
via Terminal: sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu.
Log out/in.
Not certain yet if this creates any other limitations or causes any
buggy behavior, but it does allow
I suspect there is something wrong with the libreoffice-gtk package if
removing it enables the Alt key shortcuts to work. I have been looking
at the libreoffice source to try to see where libreoffice-gtk is causing
this to not work.
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Comment #79 doesn't work for me. But it guided me to my (working)
solution!
First of all I didn't found any .deb package at www.libreoffice.org.
Just .rpm was avaliable.
So I found old (and magically also most new) versions at:
http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
I
The download page tries to guess what your operating system is and
display big buttons to download the most suitable installers for the
recommended version of LibreOffice. If you want a different version or
installers for a different OS, see Change the version and Change OS
some pixels below.
Comment #79 works for me, thanks.
So right now the options for users are:
(a) Use the default Ubuntu install of LibreOffice: Your Alt+? keys don't
work, so you can't open the File menu by pressing Alt+F, etc.
(b) Remove libreoffice-gtk: Your Alt+? keys work, but it looks very
different to every
Confirming that the workaround from comment #52 works, making the
Alt+key shortcuts (mnemonics, if you must abuse the English language)
work happily in Unity in Ubuntu 13.04.
To recap and update slightly, do this:
1. Completely remove LibreOffice: sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*
2. Go to
see bug 1113008 for related symptoms -- although in a different
implementation, so unlikely to be directly related. Still, if that is
solved, it might be worth a look at the fix for inspiration.
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I don't understand how this bug can persist throughout several Ubuntu
releases. It means Ubuntu doesn't have a functional office suite. You
have to choose between the Alt key or the windowing: only one will work.
(Without libreoffice-gtk, you can't maximize properly.) Is that not seen
as a major
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[Libreoffice] Mnemonics do not work in Unity
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I should have added - this is under XMir using the FOSS AMD/ATI drivers:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV620/M82 [Mobility Radeon HD 3450/3470]
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LibreOffice 4.1.1.2 in the latest pre-release build of Saucy is still
affected by this.
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Please solve this bug, it's unbelievable that still remains open...
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Workaround to fix is:
= Install other desktop environment (e.g. Mate, KDE/plasma, Gnome, xfce, or
something else), and work without unity.
It works. I did it and install gnome-shell.
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@Paul: I think it's already covered by the indicator-appmenu task.
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Is there an associated bug for this opened against GMenuModel as per the
link above that can be added here? I'm wondering where I can now track
this issue if it's closed here.
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I confirm the mnemonics didn't work on Ubuntu 13.04 with LO Version 4.0.2.2
(Build ID: 400m0(Build:2)).
Shortcut keys still appear on SUB-menu after delay, but the main menu still
lost the sortcut mnemonics
Pressing 'Alt' key brings the HUD to appear.
I try to replace default keyboard for HUD
Talking with Ted Gould at the last Client Sprint, I remember this being
an general GMenuModel issue, so not LibreOffice specific. Setting this
to Incomplete in LibreOffice, unless there is a clear indication that
this is LibreOffices fault.
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: In
** Also affects: df-libreoffice via
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Status: Unknown
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This bug is also being investigated at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57104.
I can also confirm that the bug occurs with my installation - Ubuntu
13.04, LibreOffice 4.0.x - this installation DOES NOT ALLOW the menu
shortcut keys.
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #57104
just to confirm the bug with LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 from the LibreOffice PPA on
ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
@Björn Michaelsen on 12.04 mnemonics work as usual in Gedit, in Nautilus and in
every other application I tested
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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@Björn Michaelsen is there a bug for this problem raised against
indicator-appmenu?
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Comment 42 was never answered, readding unity.
** No longer affects: unity
** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
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My solution is:
run synaptic,
delete all the libreoffice packages. (not the fonts or uno-related packages)
Go to libreoffice.org and download the latest.
Unpack it
% cd topdir/DEBS
% dpkg -i *.deb desktop*/*.deb
LibreOffice runs! ALT works! and, best of all, the menu bar is on the
window so that
@John Pye: I talked to Ted Gould about this one yesterday, it seems to be a
generic issue in indicator-appmenu for applications using the new and
recommened GMenuModel way to communicate the menu to the indicator.
@Ken Clive: I dont think this is an issue in LibreOffice at this point, so I am
Still working on this fix. I figured out how to make the string
conversions simpler so that replacing the '~' character with an
underscore is quicker when opening menus. However, I still don't see
mnemonic underlines for menu headers (File, Edit, etc.), so maybe my
code is only affecting items
Mnemonics work in Gedit, don't know what's going on with Nautilus.
Tested with current 12.04 system. Mnemonics also work in 'dumb' (nothing
special for Unity) PyGTK applications, so something automatic about GTK
on Unity is working correctly, at least in some cases.
Björn, did you take a look at
** Description changed:
When lo-menubar is installed and LibreOffice is open with a document,
the keyboard shortcuts to access menus like Alt + F for file etc do not
work. Menu keyboard shortcuts are working for other apps via indicator-
menu.
WORKAROUND: Disable the global menu by
This seems to be partially fix with the fix for bug 1085169 in test
upload 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu2~raring1~ppa3 to the LibreOffice PPA at
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa, mnemonics work in the
submenus, but not yet in the topmenu -- so the menu cant be opened with
e.g. Alt-F yet.
**
Hmm, Alt-F doesnt work even with some extra changes, however I noted it
doesnt work in Nautilus (though e.g. Softwarecenter works here) either.
Maybe a general issue (read: indicator-appmenu issue)?
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The bug description says, This might be solved if bug #1064962 is
solved. However, bug #1064962 is now fixed in 13.04 beta, but this
problem remains.
Also, as mentioned in earlier comments, the workaround mentioned in the
bug description (remove libreoffice-gtk) is no longer really viable in
John,
I have not yet succeeded in building LibreOffice 3.6 with Unity menu
support using the instructions provided in the Ubuntu Wiki, nor can I do
it with Ubuntu packages. I have attached my code here, which should go
under core/vcl/unx/gtk/window in the LO sources.
Sorry for the delay in this
Ken: where can we find your code?
All: I found instructions for building LibreOffice at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingLibreOffice
Abdur: did you succeed in trying Ken's code somehow? Or what...?
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Marius, I just tested this in Raring and this bug is definitely not
fixed.
Abdur, please don't change bug statuses without an explanation. Thanks.
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Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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John,
I am trying to implement the underscore in glomenu.cxx, where the menu
labels are generated. If you look at gtksalmenu.cxx, where all the menu
items are generated, there is code in the NativeSetItemText function
that converts the tilde (~) character to an underscore. This is what I
am
Ken, you could just let Launchpad build it for you, by uploading it to a
PPA or setting up a recipe on a bzr branch.
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Hi Björn,
What are your thoughts on where this problem is arising? I can see that you
worked on this code together with Michael Meeks and Antonio Fernandez.
http://gitorious.org/libreoffice/core/commits/feature/unitymenus-master
Am I write in understanding that libvclplug_gtklo.so is a
Comment #31 : me too! I.e., on precise 12.04.2, LO version:
4.0.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa1 the all important alt key is useless.
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For those who need menemonics (alt+...) but are not fussed about the
HUD, this might be an acceptable workaround (on Quantal, certainly;
might well work on Precise and Raring). It's the best solution I have
found.
Removed/purged LibreOffice, and then installed LibreOffice4 from
A footnote to my comment #36 above:
Just installed LO4.0.1 from http://www.libreoffice.org/download as
before, and can report that the icons which appear in the Unity launcher
and the Application Switcher are much improved. Not perfect, though -
successive programs of whatever filetype are marked
Footnote 2: Scrap last comment re. 'bonus' - that only works if it is
the first document opened... But at least if fits the pattern.
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This is still a problem in Quantal and Raring. It is more of an issue
than ever with Raring because there is no libreoffice-gtk package to
remove. Some other workaround is urgently needed!
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About the workaround as stated in comment #32 : I think it's
libreoffice-gtk that needs to be uninstalled (or both).
Regarding the newest LibreOffice version 4.0.1-rc2, you may also be
interested in other bugs related to Unity's global menu integration (at
least in Ubuntu 12.04 precise ) and that
note as per:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/739184/comments/22
you can get a albeit ugly libreoffice experience without unity integration by
uninstalling libreoffice-gnome.
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I have just installed LibreOffice 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
(1:4.0.1~rc1-2ubuntu1~precise1~ppa7) from the LibreOffice PPA.
This bug is still present, but with this upgrade, the default is for the
lo-menubar functionality to be included by default, which is intensely
annoying as it breaks all my
This seems to be still present in 13.04.
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** Changed in: unity
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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Disregard the previous change. Someone decided it was fun to mess with
bug reports.
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come on, please don't change bug status without any reason.
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released = Triaged
** Changed in: unity
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Just confirming this affect me as well on 12.10, 64 bit.
Removing libreoffice-gtk leaves such an unappealing environment to work
in I choose to remove all global menus (sudo apt-get remove indicator-
appmenu).
I use menemonics in all applications - especially in LibreOffice. THe
HUD is a nice
Same here:
The menu appears in the app panel but dissapears when trying a mnemonic
like Alt-f. The keystroke results in no activity other than causing the
menu to dissapear.
Mouseover and Alt-f10 make the menu re-appear and function except for
the mnemonics.
It occurs always.
Benjamin
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Confirmed. This was previously a problem with ``lo-menubar'' in
11.04/11.10/12.04. Now in 12.10 the problem has been transferred from
the additional/not-installed-by-default ``lo-menubar'' package into
Libreoffice's GTK integration and thus this bug now affects everyone.
Removing
Still happening for me after the upgrade released to fix bug #1064962
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1064962.
Using a 64-bit system upgraded from Precise to Quantal with all latest
updates installed.
Please release a fix soon as without it all the fancy work to make a
nice way to make a person lose 2 hours of productive time. Keep
improving
na ja, fresh upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 12.10
Release:12.10
Codename: quantal
$ apt-cache policy
** Description changed:
When lo-menubar is installed and LibreOffice is open with a document,
the keyboard shortcuts to access menus like Alt + F for file etc do not
work. Menu keyboard shortcuts are working for other apps via indicator-
menu.
- affects ubuntu/lo-menubar
+ WORKAROUND:
I second that this is extremely important. In Precise, I could just
disable lo-menubar, and it made no difference that the menu appeared in
the window instead of at the top of the screen. Now I have to choose
between using keyboard shortcuts (by uninstalling libreoffice-gnome
/libreoffice-gtk) and
Thanks Marius, that did the trick. It does ruin a lot of the integration
as you say, but not as much as having to boot into windows to get some
writing done does.
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You can remove package libreoffice-gtk as a workaround, but then you
loose some other gtk integrations as well, e. g. open dialog.
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This has gotten so much worse with quantal. Before we had the workaround
of uninstalling lo-menubar and putting up with the menu not visually
matching the rest of the shell. Now there's no longer that in-between
option (it's quite literally quantal).
I haven't tried installing libre office from
Confirmed on quantal release in Libreoffice impress. Any way to disable
the global menu for LibreOffice in the meantime?
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Having same problem with Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal quetzal) on fresh install
of LibreOffice 3.6.2 RC2 (from Ubuntu install) WITHOUT lo-menubar.
To reproduce: open any of Calc, Writer, Base, Draw, Impress, keyboard
shortcuts do not work.
lance@supergrover:~$ uname -a
Linux supergrover
lo-menubar is just a transitional package in Ubuntu 12.10, so it does
not affect this bug.
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