Keyboard shortcuts missing/inoperable in ipe

[James R. Phillips]

Apparently the package appmenu-qt5 interferes with the ability to use the keyboard shortcuts in the ipe drawing program, if ipe is compiled with qt5.

Workarounds apparently include recompiling ipe to use qt4, or removing the appmenu-qt5 from the system. I chose to remove appmenu-qt5, but I may suffer issues with other qt5 software because of that, I'm not sure.

The issue is known to the primary ipe developer, per https://github.com/otfried/ipe-issues/issues/42

ipe becomes virtually unusable without keyboard shortcuts.

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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04

$ apt-cache policy ipe
ipe:
  Installed: 7.1.10-1.1
  Candidate: 7.1.10-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 7.1.10-1.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ipe 7.1.10-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 16 12:50:07 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ipe
SourcePackage: ipe
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-25 (52 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[morinpatmorin (morinpatmorin)]

A workaround for now is to remove appmenu-qt5

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5