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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior of "tab" key with Libreoffice Calc and Plasma
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:50:31
Message-Id: 20190624185021.56d994a8@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behavior of "tab" key with Libreoffice Calc and Plasma by Mick
1 On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:52:15 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > > > It seems that somehow pressing the tab key once gives focus to the
4 > > > menu bar: pressing tab once, then pressing "F" brings down the file
5 > > > menu; pressing tab, then pressing "E" displays the edit menu and so
6 > > > on.
7 > >
8 > > Here, pressing Tab-Tab simply moves 2 cells to the right.
9 >
10 > Hmm ... are you running a non-KDE environment by any chance?
11 >
12 > I just tried LO on Englightenment and it works fine, BUT it runs with
13 > GTK icons. Various KDE DEs however exhibit the same behaviour here -
14 > double tab to move to the right cell and select it to be able to enter
15 > data.
16 >
17 > Another thing I tried is to launch it with:
18 >
19 > SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 soffice
20 >
21 > On a plasma only system, it will not respect this incantation and About
22 > always shows "VCL: kde5; " so this leads me to conclude the problem is
23 > with the KDE compilation flag.
24
25 Good catch, that one worked for me, bit I have LO installed with both the
26 kde and gtk USE flags.
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29 --
30 Neil Bothwick
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32 Knock firmly but softly. I like soft firm knockers.