Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 110244
ALT key behaviour clashes with standard linux desktop usage
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:02:01 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.
Window is dragged with Alt and menu is not being activated. AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573062 2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123 Debian