Openoffice is not usable for me since some time. I did not have the time to find a working version, but i get the same problem with 2.4.0, 2.4.1, <2.4.0 about 1 month ago and latest -bin about 1 month ago. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Openoffice Writer 2. Write some letters (e.g. "asdf") 3. Backspace does not work, the arrow keys do not work Actual Results: See 3.. Expected Results: All keys work, i can use openoffice. stoile@troy ~ $ emerge -pv openoffice These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 USE="cups dbus eds firefox gnome gstreamer gtk mono opengl pam xulrunner -binfilter -debug -java -kde -ldap -odk -seamonkey" LINGUAS="de en -af -ar -as_IN -be_BY -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -dz -el -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -eo -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB stoile@troy ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.5.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r11, 2.5.2-r4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -fforce-addr -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -fforce-addr -maccumulate-outgoing-args" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" INSTALL_MASK="" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j1 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/troy" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/ltsp /usr/local/layman/nouveau /usr/local/layman/science /usr/local/layman/stoile /usr/local/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi afs alsa apm audiofile avahi berkdb blas branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl daap dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java5 jpeg lapack lcms libnotify lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg syslog tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xml2 xorg xprint xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS stoile@troy ~ $
Can't reproduce this, doesn't sound like an OOo problem to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your keyboard setup? Anything special about your X.org / keyboard setup?
On the contrary, i'm quite sure this is a problem with my setup, but i did not see it on any other applications and i have no idea where to look for solutions. I have an Evdev-managed-keyboard in Xorg, German Layout, Nothing special, i think. and absolutely no problems with all the Mozilla, Gnome, KDE and Command Line applications i tried. Any idea how i could further debug this?
(In reply to comment #2) > On the contrary, i'm quite sure this is a problem with my setup, but i did not > see it on any other applications and i have no idea where to look for > solutions. > > I have an Evdev-managed-keyboard in Xorg, German Layout, Nothing special, i > think. and absolutely no problems with all the Mozilla, Gnome, KDE and Command > Line applications i tried. > > Any idea how i could further debug this? > Not the right one to ask, reassigning
Do you still get that problem?
No, I don't have it anymore. Latest Openoffice works for me. app-office/openoffice-3.0.0
Thanks, by the way.
