Bug 164000 - Menu Page in Draw cannot be started with key board, Alt-P opens dialog Default Drawing Style
Summary: Menu Page in Draw cannot be started with key board, Alt-P opens dialog Defaul...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Justin L
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2024-11-22 20:41 UTC by Cor Nouws
Modified: 2025-09-13 10:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Cor Nouws 2024-11-22 20:41:27 UTC
Start Draw document
Try opening menu Page with Alt-P
 > this opens dialog Default Drawing Style

In combination with bug 163596, the effect is that the menu Page in Draw cannot be started with key board.


Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 3a8278c42e14b03eb57987adf33b6d61bfb3f856
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2024-11-23 19:08:21 UTC
I'm not sure whether Alt+Character is intended to open of menu. For me (on Windows 11) it works this way: Press Alt key and release it. Now the bar with the menu names shows for each menu an underlined character. Then press this character. The drop-down list of that menu opens.
Comment 2 Eric Rodriguez 2024-11-23 19:12:16 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in
Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 869fff459cbee6a2edadd5c24f2b65c199712de6
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in
Version: 24.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2024-11-24 14:52:58 UTC
Bibisected with linux-64-7.4 to 856887cbc8a0a2fd04b90ee2170948d34c8ff9c4
tdf#65911 add accelerators for style editing

Even the original bug 65911 is still open and known issues are mentioned (but not this one).
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2024-12-05 10:48:45 UTC
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1)
> I'm not sure whether Alt+Character is intended to open of menu. For me (on
> Windows 11) it works this way: Press Alt key and release it. Now the bar
> with the menu names shows for each menu an underlined character. Then press
> this character. The drop-down list of that menu opens.
That is how it works for me with e.g. Firefox that has a hidden menu, on Ubuntu+Gnome.
LibreOffice doesn't work like that.
(In general my finger memory is quite good ;) )
Comment 5 Cor Nouws 2024-12-05 10:50:35 UTC
(In reply to Eric Rodriguez from comment #2)
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render:
Thanks Eric. yes it is indeed a bug on Linux(Ubuntu).
Comment 6 Cor Nouws 2024-12-05 10:51:13 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3)
> Bibisected with linux-64-7.4 to 856887cbc8a0a2fd04b90ee2170948d34c8ff9c4
> tdf#65911 add accelerators for style editing
Thanks for finding that Ilamri.
Comment 7 Justin L 2025-09-12 17:36:19 UTC
One solution would be the same as what was done for bug 151941 - making this a Writer-only shortcut instead of a global one. (I guess it should be added specifically to calc and perhaps Impress as well then...)
Comment 8 Commit Notification 2025-09-13 10:04:06 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/d49d496c2f09feb794b487afb99a35dc888357c1

tdf#164000: make Alt-P (paragraph style) shortcut key for Writer only

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.