Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 55325
Keyboard shortcuts on a Greek keyboard
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:00:08 UTC
The standard keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-S for "save", Ctrl-F for "find" etc.) do not work when the keyboard is Greek, despite the fact that in the KDE shortcuts these combinations (Ctrl+Greek S, Ctrl+Greek F etc.) have been declared as alternate ways of doing the same thing. All Oo does is print the corresponding Greek letter. For people used to the keyboard and doing a lot of writing this can actually be a major obstacle in using the linux version of Oo.
I hasten to add that it suddenly occurred to me to check whether other applications heed the KDE shortcuts and I discovered that they don't, at least if those shortcuts involve letters of the Greek keyboard, with the notable exception of the combination that switches the keyboard from Greek into English. Native KDE applications (like kWord for example) display the same behaviour as Oo. And, of course, the same is true of GNOME as well. One might think this is a KDE and GNOME issue, but still I read somewhere that Oo sports its own keyboard routines, so you might be tempted to take a look...
This is a duplicate of http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23836 Could you please mark this bug as duplicate? I do not seem to have the option to do so. Apparently Mozilla has the same issue, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69230 Just for the record, GNOME works perfectly ok when you switch to Greek/other language. :) See the last comments at the mozilla bug above.
Per http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=42122 it appears the bug has been fixed. What version/build of OOo are you running?
My current Oo version is 1.9.129 and KDE is 3.4.3. Although you are right about Gnome (the problem has indeed been fixed), it persists in KDE. As a matter of fact, in Firefox, which I am using right now (in a KDE session), the keys do not work either. By contrast, however, in Firefox they produce nothing, while in KDE they print on screen the corresponding Greek letter.