Alt-X keyboard shortcut not defined in LibreOffice 6.4

[Justin Luth]

LibreOffice has default keyboard shortcuts defined. In Ubuntu 20.04 and LibreOffice 6.4, it seems like some of those keyboard shortcuts are missing. Specifically I was looking for Alt-X (for LibreOffice in general, not only writer).

Alt-X is defined by default in a LibreOffice source compile.

These can be configured in LibreOffice tools -> customize - keyboard

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 11 04:45:55 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-11 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Justin Luth (jluth)]

I tried looking in launchpad's patches, but don't see anything that specifically strips it out, so I imagine it must be related to a compile flag. In previous versions, it seems to be specified in [/usr/lib/libreoffice]share/registry/main.xcd - from which it is now missing.

<node oor:name="X_MOD2">
  <prop oor:name="Command">
    <value xml:lang="en-US">.uno:UnicodeNotationToggle</value>
    <value xml:lang="de"/>
    <value xml:lang="vi"/>
    <value xml:lang="eu"/>
    <value xml:lang="gl"/>
    <value xml:lang="nl"/>
    value xml:lang="pt-BR"/>
  </prop>
</node>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it's another config change in mail.xcd compared to Debian and could be similar to bug #1869561

[Justin Luth (jluth)]

I confirmed with Debian testing that they install LO 6.4.3, and that alt-x works in there. So what I see agrees with Sebastien.

There is good reason to believe that this will be fixed in 6.4.4 with Don't use main.xcd configured with --disable-gui (LP: #1869561)

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

I've verified that the Alt+X behavior is broken in 6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 that is currently in the focal archive. And since I was testing 6.4.4~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa1 to prepare for the 6.4.4 release, I went ahead and was able to easily check that indeed the Alt-X behavior works in 6.4.4. So stand by for the 6.4.4 release to get this fix.