Comment 104 for bug 1064962

I have added Luc's ppa as in #99 above and can confirm that menus can now be accessed in pre-existing documents opened from Nautilus, Dash etc. However, comment #103 goes too far in saying 'libreOffice Global Menu now works perfectly':

The menu can be accessed *only* by using the pointing device or 'indicator menu' shortcut (Alt+F10 is the default, I think), which leaves two problems (related, I imagine) remaining:

1) Pressing ALT (with or without a shortcut key) fails to show the menu
2) HUD does not function within LO

These problems seem to apply to any LO documents - whether new or opened from Nautilus, etc.

Not being able to use ALT to show the menu is a major stumbling block for me, since it breaks the system-wide pattern of menus and shortcuts, which is by far the fastest way to to do frequent tasks.

Back to my preferred workaround (sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu). Although that denies me the use of HUD in *all* applications (since the global menus issue is still unresolved), I can use Alt-based shortcuts in LO, which is more important.