Issue 110244 - ALT key behaviour clashes with standard linux desktop usage
Summary: ALT key behaviour clashes with standard linux desktop usage
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
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Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.2
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2010-03-19 06:14 UTC by dkasak
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:02 UTC (History)
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Description dkasak 2010-03-19 06:14:23 UTC
All the window managers I've used under Linux use the ALT & drag combination key
to move windows. Further, ALT & click will raise a window.

OpenOffice presently activates a menu if the ALT key is clicked. This means if
I'm switching between windows by ALT-clicking, or ALT-click-dragging, OpenOffice
will always activate a menu, which I don't want, and I have to hit ALT or ESCAPE
to make it go away. This is absolutely infuriating. I am not the only one to
believe so:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org/msg00934.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=730885

This behaviour is completely incompatible with modern desktop usage. At the very
least, there should be an option to disable this ALT key behaviour. Or better
still, just remove it. The accepted way of activating menus is to use a
COMBINATION of ALT and another key to activate a window, for example ALT & F for
the 'File' menu.
Comment 1 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-03 19:36:56 UTC
Window is dragged with Alt and menu is not being activated.
AOO410m14(Build:9760)  -  Rev. 1573062
2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123
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