deads keys / accented characters stop working on Libreoffice after windows loses focus

[ghomem]

deads keys / accented characters stop working on Libreoffice after windows loses focus

On Ubuntu 14.04 with KDE:

1. open libreoffice
2. write áéíóú
3. click on another window or use alt+tab
4. clock on libreoffice window or use alt+tab
5. write áéíóu and get aeiou instead

The situation can be worked around by running

unset XMODIFIERS
libreoffice

from a terminal.

We can certainly set unset XMODIFIERS on

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice

but that will not survice libreoffice upgrades.

We could also unset XMODIFIERS on .bash_profile but we want the workaround to be limited to libreoffice without causing side effects on other apps.

Conclusion: we need a solution that comes directly from Ubuntu's repositories.

Any comments?

We are available for further debugging and testing.

Note: there are similar bug reports published but this is the closest one

https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71437

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Antonio Sánchez (ingantosan)]

Same here: Kubuntu 14.10, LibreOffice 4.3.3.2, spanish localization.

This makes installed LO unusable for me. Alternatives: XMODIFIERS workaround; reinstall gnome LO; use alternative software: calligra, OO; abiword... None of them is satisfying. Provided office package should be completely usable.

Found some reports in the web:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/564862/accented-letters-cant-be-typed-after-alttab
http://askubuntu.com/questions/451840/accents-stop-working-all-of-a-sudden-in-libreoffice

Some comments:

"I solved it in my system by removing libreoffice-kde and keeping libreoffice-gnone."

"It seems other similar issues may be related to this package combination (KDE, ibus, libreoffice-kde)"

"What helped to me was to remove libreoffice-kde package."

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I cannot reproduce this in Trusty Unity.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

FWIW, I do not have libreoffice-kde installed

[nh3 (nh3)]

I had the same problem.

elementary OS 0.3.2 Freya (64-bit)
libreoffice Version: 4.2.8.2 Build ID: 420m0(Build:2)

$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
es_ES.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX

$ locale -a -v
locale: en_US.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    title | English locale for the USA
   source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  address | 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
    email | <email address hidden>
 language | English
territory | USA
 revision | 1.0
     date | 2000-06-24
  codeset | UTF-8

locale: es_ES.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    title | Spanish locale for Spain
   source | RAP
  address | Sankt Jørgens Alle 8, DK-1615 København V, Danmark
    email | <email address hidden>
 language | Spanish
territory | Spain
 revision | 1.0
     date | 2000-06-29
  codeset | UTF-8

locale: fr_FR.utf8 archive: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    title | French locale for France
   source | RAP
  contact | Traduc.org
    email | <email address hidden>
 language | French
territory | France
 revision | 1.0
     date | 2008-03-15
  codeset | UTF-8

 I do not have libreoffice-kde installed neither.

I followed this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226270
$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk

I don't like it, but it's working