It's not just "the system." Your "keyboard setting" is a layered approach: BIOS, <- system kernel, <- startup daemons, <-display driver (x.org + Gnome, etc.) <- app. You need to work your way up the chain. Any keyboard setting at a higher level can override lower level settings. Also, you might check your mouse/pointer driver. Some mouse drivers can have traps on control keys.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:07 AM Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > This is something that I've seen for years and I think it applies to Apache > OpenOffice as well. Since I live in a country where English is not the > native language, my keyboard has this AltGr button, I think it's also > called the ”Right Alt key” (and the regular Alt key is referred to as the > ”Left Alt key”) in most of the operating systems I've used (currently > Manjaro, I switched from Ubuntu a couple of years ago). Since my alphabet > has 29 letters, there are too few keys for the characters @£${[]}\€, so the > AltGr key is used for that, for instance AltGr+8 → [. > > This works perfectly in LibreOffice, no problems there, but it seems like > the AltGr key is disabled, overridden, in some situations, for instance in > combination with the arrow keys, so Alt+← has the exact same effect as just > the ← key by itself. > > Do anyone here happen to know why? ←→↓↑ are just keys, like k, c and f. > > The reason I ask is that I use my own keyboard layout to make it more > intuitive to type some characters that are normally not on a keyboard, so I > rearranged the original layout a bit. Almost every key now can type a > character with AltGr, in combination with Shift or not. A few examples: > AltGr+[Enter] → ↵ > AltGr+Shift+[Enter] → ¶ > AltGr+[Tab] → ⇥ > AltGr+Shift+[Tab] → ⇤ > AltGr+[Backspace] → ⌫ > AltGr+Shift+[Backspace] → ⌦ > AltGr+↑ → ↑ (the ↑ character, not the ”move to the line above” feature) > and more. > > Anyway, since the AltGr key seems disabled in combination with these keys, > I can't type those arrows and things I just mentioned in LibreOffice, > unless I place them at other keys in my layout, but that would be less > intuitive (why would AltGr+i be a →? It is on my native default keyboard > layout, but that doesn't make much sense, does it?). > > I mean it's 2019, Unicode has been along for decades and we should be able > to use it with ease, right? I know there are workarounds, like > auto-correction and external programs like AutoKey (which I recommend, by > the way, but only install the latest version; the version in Ubuntu's > repositories for instance, is very outdated and doesn't work properly). > > Also, do you think that writing a bug report about this would lead to > anything good? I suspect I will get something like ”don't make your own > keyboard layouts, you moron” in reply at best. > > Thanks for listening. > 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/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- 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/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
