[PLUG-TALK] LibreOffice 5 ignores keyboard shortcuts
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Mar 29 12:45:15 UTC 2017
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> One thing that I can say is that if you post about a problem on any of the
> mailing lists and you say that you are using the version from the
> repository for whatever distro you are using, your query will be answered
> with the certainty that your problem was caused by 'things your distro
> did,' and your sure solution is to download the real version from LO/OO.
John,
To address two of your comments:
1) After posting the message I found where keyboard shortcuts are defined
(Tools -> Customize). Some had been removed when I upgraded (e.g., ctrl-v),
others re-assigned (e.g., ctrl-w as 'paste.') I re-set those for both LO in
its entirety and its Writer component in particular. Why they have separate
shortcuts for each component and another set apparently for the entire suite
is puzzling. Of interest to me is there is no navigation action 'delete next
character' that can be assigned to ctrl-d. There are 'delete word right,'
'delete to end of word/line/sentence/paragraph/universe' but no single
character. Have to use the 'Del' key for that.
2) LO is not part of the base Slackware distribution but is in the huge
SlackBuilds.org repository. The source tarball is downloaded from the LO
site and built with the provided script. Thus, there is no 'distribution
version' to be condescendingly blamed.
About 95% of my writing is done with emacs and LaTeX/LyX. Sometimes I need
to use LO, or I think it might be quicker when it really is not, so I'm
caught in the ideosyncracies of this Word clone.
Regards,
Rich
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