Bug 159322 - Keypad keys are different from main keyboard
Summary: Keypad keys are different from main keyboard
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: framework (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.5.7.1 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2024-01-22 12:32 UTC by Ulrich Windl
Modified: 2024-04-04 13:57 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Windl 2024-01-22 12:32:20 UTC
After having assigned hotkeys for the keypad numbers (combining them with Cntrl) in Windows 10, I realized that LibreOffice does not distinguish between the mail keyboard's digits and the keypad number keys, thus reacting on the hot key that I had thought to be unused.
That is unfortunate as it reduces the number of usable global hot keys available for other applications.

Thus I suggest to implement a different keyboard scanning routine that allows to assign different functions to (e.g.) Cntrl+1 on the main keyboard and the number pad.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2024-01-23 02:45:21 UTC
We just had a go round over this when the assigned shortcuts for the SB decks conflicted with Alt code Numpad entry on Windows, see also bug 158112

Fixing that on Windows [1] isolated the Numpad keys from the main keyboard keys--so it is feasible. Just not clear how appealing it would be cross platform.


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[1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/161891