Tools/Customise: Strange keyboard shortcut behavior

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#1

This concerns LO 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) LTS.

In Writer, clicking on the down / up buttons below the vertical scroll bar will - properly - move the focus to the top of the following / previous page.

However, I would much prefer to do that via a keyboard shortcut.

In the "Navigate" category of Writer's "Tools/Customize" menu there are two functions that should potentially achieve this:
"Previous Page" and "Next Page".

In the Shortcut Keys frame I've assigned Alt+PgDn (=Next(!) in the frame) to Next Page resp. Alt+PgUp (=Prior(!)) to Previous Page, but the result is not the same as with the mouse click: it is more like an ordinary scrolling motion.

Writer does not react at all to a simple PgUp or PgDn keypress.

Is there another way that I might achieve via the keyboard the same effect as with the navigation button clicks?

TIA.

john

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
On Ubuntu 12.04 the LibreOffice 3.5.7 does seem to take notice of the
normal "Page Up" and "Page down" but scrolls 1 screen-full at a time
rather than a full page.

Have you tried renaming the User Profile?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
That usually fixes "weird things that shouldn't be happening". It
resets almost everything "back to factory defaults", which might be a
little different from the tweaks the Mageia people put in but should
be good settings By renaming, rather than deleting, you still have
all the tweaks carefully hidden and can copy&paste chunks of the old
profile back into the new one to recover previous settings.

In the "Shortcut Keys" frame have the settings for normal Page Up and
down keys been reassigned to do something odd? is it difficult to
see/guess how they should be set? I've not looked so i don't know.

Is Mageia itself doing something odd with the Page Up and Down
globally? Individual apps should over-rule them but perhaps those
keys are being used for something important? I doubt this is being
done tbh but if it's easy to have a look it might be worth it.

Any chance you could download and use a more recent version? From our
downloads page you can choose "Fresh" (the default, currently 4.2.1)
or "Stable" (4.1.5) and i would tend to go with stable unless you
really want fancy new features and even greater compatibility with MS
formats. I try to make sure i use "Fresh" on a couple of
test-machines but keep most of my colleagues on stable.

With Gnu&Linux it's generally easier to stick with programs from the
repos but for LibreOffice (and Evolution but not many others) it's
better to go the Windows route and install directly from which-ever
site appears to be the right one. In our case our official site is
http://www.libreoffice.org/
and it's just been radically revamped to a fresh new look :))

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

This concerns LO 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) LTS.
In Writer, clicking on the down / up buttons below the vertical scroll bar will - properly - move the focus to the top of the following / previous page.

Not necessarily. These buttons move backwards and forwards, but the interval is set in Navigation (not the Navigator), which can be opened with the button between those two double-arrow buttons. "Page" is just one of the possible settings there. And these buttons change the display but do not, I think, move the cursor.

However, I would much prefer to do that via a keyboard shortcut. In the "Navigate" category of Writer's "Tools/Customize" menu there are two functions that should potentially achieve this: "Previous Page" and "Next Page".

They should be set by default to the PageUp and PageDown keys, I think.

In the Shortcut Keys frame I've assigned Alt+PgDn (=Next(!) in the frame) to Next Page resp. Alt+PgUp (=Prior(!)) to Previous Page, but the result is not the same as with the mouse click: it is more like an ordinary scrolling motion.

Yes, they differ in two ways from the buttons: they scroll by a screenful (not necessarily a page of the document) and they *do* move the cursor.

Writer does not react at all to a simple PgUp or PgDn keypress.

Does your operating system or some other software intervene in these keystrokes?

Is there another way that I might achieve via the keyboard the same effect as with the navigation button clicks?

In Tools | Customize... | Keyboard | Category | Navigate, try "To Begin of Previous Page" and "To Begin of Next Page" (or "To End ..." if preferred). These do something different again: they move by page, not screenful, but do move the cursor!

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker