Re: [libreoffice-users] AltGr behaviour

On 25/01/18 08:16, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 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
Do you think that could be because LO treats keycode 100 and keycode  56 
(the 2 Alt keys on my board) as the same key.
I notice in Tools>Customise>Keyboard no differentiation is offered. I 
noticed things not right with the alt key (for me) a while back and 
mapped "Paste unformatted text" to Ctl+k to skip the issue.
steve


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