Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 90070
Command+Backspace freezes OpenOffice
Last modified: 2008-10-21 11:36:31 UTC
I see the following issue on OOo 3 beta/Aqua as well as on the current OOo-dev preview snapshot (on Mac OSX Leopard on x86): When I enter something in OOo spreadsheet or writer, then press Command/Apple + Backspace, it freezes the application almost completely. The application does not react to further input anymore. The buttons stay seemingly clickable yet do not do anything. Moving around the document with the mouse or the keyboard does not work anymore, neither does saving or closing the app, except for force-quitting it. When force-quitting the application, the document recovery wizard shows up and when clicking OK, it freezes too. If I press Command+Q instead, the wizard closes fine. After restarting OOo, it behaves as expected again, but pressing CMD+Backspace will freeze it reproducibly.
I see this same (mis)behaviour using CTRL-Backspace, which being an ex-Linux user I mistakenly type when trying to delete a word. Only solution is to force quit OOo3beta. It looks similar to situations when X11 loses keyboard focus.
Already fixed in newer builds. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 87287 ***
Closing duplicate.