LibreOffice menu accessibility

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:57:25AM EST, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> If I pull up the LibreOffice Writer to view a Word document, I can't
> seem to open any menus.
> 
> Alt alone brings up the HUD. F10, as well as Alt-f, Alt-t, etc. do nothing.

LibreOffice is one of those special case apps that requires specialized code to be written to put its menu bar into the global menu and make it searchable by the HUD. Unfortunately this code is still very buggy, particularly when it comes to keyboard access. I can certainly reproduce the problems you are having, and can use Alt F10 to open the menu bar, but cannot arrow through menus, since whenever I arrow to a menu item, it gets automatically activated.

I believe keyboard bugs have been filed against the relevant package that manages the global menu bar support for LibreOffice, however I am not sure what package is responsible for this, it may be LibreOffice itself though.

I think the only wayh to work around this properly is to run LibreOffice under an alternate shell. There may also be a way to disable the global menu support for LibreOffice, but I am not sure how this could be done.

Luke