Right Alt key not working

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On modern keyboards the Right Hand Alt key is marked Alt Gr which stands for Alt Graphics. It's function is different to the Left Hand Alt and what it does depends on the Keyboard layout and the operating system.

On my UK keyboard with Windows 8.1 the Alt Gr key with these keys produces -
a > á
e > é
i > í
o > ó
u > ú
4 > €
¬ > ¦

This gives these results on all applications including Notepad, MS Office, LO. The same results are produced by using Control + Left Hand Alt as Alt Gr produces the same Keycode as Control + Left Hand Alt.
See here

I am bothered by this problem also. The Right-Alt key does not work with any key, not exactly.

Oddly enough Right-Alt works -- if you let go of it first!

• As expected Left-Alt+T, release opens the Tools menu, for example.
• Right-Alt, release, T, release will get me to the Tools menu.
• Right-Alt+T, release just prints a "t" in the document.

The key does not work that way in any other application.

This is a LibreOffice bug.

LibreOffice does not operate properly on the US keyboard layout on Windows.
It improperly treats the right ALT key as if it is on an International layout keyboard.
So none of your ALT+ or Ctrl+ALT+ etc. key combinations work properly when using the right ALT key.

Tested on Word 2013 and Word 2016 on Windows 7 with a US keyboard setting - all works correctly.
Any combination of left ALT or right ALT with Ctrl or Shift works as expected.

I have added a number of keyboard shortcuts to LO that are obviously missing (e.g. changing the view).
I can only use the left ALT key which makes for some odd habits to hit the right keys.

This is a VERY ANNOYING LibreOffice bug.
It only affects the entire United States ... so not a priority.

This is actually a Keyboard / Operating system setup question. The Alt-Gr + key is read by the keyboard/operating system and passed to LibreOffice, it is not decided by LibreOffice. The topic is discussed in the topic https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questi... The note below work on my Linux Mint system for all the software and all my versions of LibO (EN-GB) 4.0, 5.3, 5.4. The key is actually understanding the purpose of Alt-Gr. It applies to the versions of Windows that have a Alt-Gr (Right Alt key). Alt-Gr or Right-Alt is not the same as Alt but on the right hand side.

Briefly, the keyboard has four levels for entering characters.

My default keyboard is English UK extended Winkeys

Level 1 Lowercase Letter (a c d e etc.. for example)

Level 2 Uppercase Shift + letter (A C D E)

Level 3 Alt-Gr (right Alt) + letter (depending on keyboard for me á ç ð é ) Level 4 Alt-Gr Shift + letter (Á Ç Ð É)

Using the same keyboard but changing the setting to American International gives

                    a c d e    A C D E    á © ð é    Á ¢ Ð É

Swiss German a b d e A B D E æ ¢ ð € Æ ’ Ð E

Irish a c d e A C D E á ̧ð é   Á ¸ Ð É

I hope this provides a little information. In America, a Windows system is often set to ignore the level 3 and 4 so they struggle to put in accented characters and Alt-Gr is unpredictable. always check that the keyboard is set to International.

This is the same problem of as the right Alt key in Putty, so the solution is the same:

Make a reg file, say, RightAlt.reg

Copy & Paste the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,38,00,38,e0,00,00,00,00

Save and double-click to import the registry.

Re-start Windows, then the right alt key is fine.

For explanation, check

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PuTTY...

I tried LO 3.5 up to 5.1 and the right ALT (=ALTGr) does not work at all. I updated to Win10 recently. BUT the left ALT key works the way you want it.

I'm experiencing the same issue. I figured there would be documentation about the problem and certain that the change must have been done for some specific reason. But, perhaps we are the only two people in the world who use the right Alt key. I use keyboard shortcuts all day long and being limited to the left alt key is quite frustrating.