Hi! I find the AltGr behaviour a bit strange in LibreOffice and I wonder why and if anything can be done about it.
My environment is maybe a bit odd, but it works in most applications, LibreOffice one of the few where it doesn't work. The thing is that I use my own keyboard layout, and I have done that for maybe ten years or so. The thing about my layout is that I can type characters with keys like Enter, arrow keys, tab, Home, End etc, if combined with the AltGr key. For instance, AltGr+Enter types the ↵ character (great for writing user manuals…), Shift+AltGr+Enter ⇨ ¶ This works almost everywhere, but as I said, not in LibreOffice (nor Apache OpenOffice, I think). If I hit AltGr and an arrow key, LibreOffice ignores AltGr and just moves the cursor. I expected, depending on which arrow key, one of ←↑↓→. With Shift, I expect one of ⬄↹↔⇨, but instead I get the Shift+arrow behaviour, so once again AltGr is ignored. If I hit AltGr and one of the number keys when Num Lock is activated, LibreOffice behaves as if Num Lock is NOT activated, for instance AltGr+7 ⇨ Home. If I do this in most other applications, I get a subscript seven (₇). And also, when hitting Shift and a number key when Num Lock is activated, I don't get the expected behaviour. For instance Shift+7 highlights everything to the left of the cursor instead of typing ⅞. Here's my numkeys layout: NumLock / * - 7 8 9 + 4 5 6 1 2 3 Enter 0 , Shift: NumLock ÷ · ⅚ ⅞ ⅓ ⅔ ⅙ ½ ⅝ ¾ ⅛ ¼ ⅜ Enter ± . AltGr: NumLock ⅕ ⅗ ₋ ₇ ₈ ₉ ₊ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₁ ₂ ₃ ↵ ₀ ⩽ Shift+AltGr: NumLock ⅖ ⅘ ⁻ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ⁺ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ¹ ² ³ ¶ ⁰ ⩾ My operating system is Manjaro stable (XFCE), but I saw the same behaviour with Ubuntu. Is there a special reason why LibreOffice don't just obey to the operating system's settings? Can I do something about it? Is it worth writing a bug report? Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
