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

[Stefano Crocco]

On domenica 23 giugno 2019 21:40:53 CEST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:59:34 +0200, 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. 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.
> >
> > Has anyone experienced this behavior?
>
> I see it too and it's annoying as hell. Even more annoying will be that
> when it is solved I will have got into the habit of pressing tab twice
> for each move :(

I'm (relatively) happy to know I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. 
Currently I'm playing around with USE flags to see whether there's a 
combination of them which fixes the problem. I think it's somehow caused by the 
kde flag: I tried USE="gtk2 kde -gtk", USE="kde -gtk -gtk2" and USE="gtk   -kde 
-gtk2" and the only configuration where this issue didn't appear was the one 
without kde. I've yet to try USE="-gtk2 kde gtk", but I don't think it'll 
work.

I'm getting really annoyed by this, so I think later today I'll file a bug 
report.

Stefano