Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior of "tab" key with Libreoffice Calc and Plasma

[Philip Webb]

190623 Stefano Crocco wrote:
> a few months ago I started noticing a very annoying behavior
> when pressing the "tab" key in Libreoffice Calc.
> Previously, pressing this key would move the cursor by one cell to the right,
> so that I could immediately start writing into the cell.

That's what it does for me now, using LO 6.2.4.2 on KDE.

> Now, while the cursor is moved to the correct cell
> -- I can see the black border around it -- ,
> I can't write in it immediately anymore.
> To move the cursor to the next cell and be able to immediately write in it,
> I need to press the tab key twice.
> It seems that somehow pressing the tab key once gives focus to the menu bar:
> pressing tab once, then pressing "F" brings down the file menu;
> pressing tab, then pressing "E" displays the edit menu and so on.

Here, pressing Tab-Tab simply moves  2  cells to the right.

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