I’ve been trying to assign shortcuts in the latest LO Writer 25.2, but with no success. Specifically, I tried to assign Alt+F to Menu/Format/Asian Phonetic Guide (to insert so called ‘Furigana’ over Japanese words written with Kanji…) but, instead of calling the desired function I’ve got only the alternative character ’ đ '. Other key combinations didn’t work either … This feature used to work fine in LO Writer 24.8 . What to do?..
Note: I’m using LibreOffice for Linux (MX-Linux 23.5), installed with Flatpak.
There may be a problem with the Flatpak version.
Try uninstalling it and installing the latest stable version of Libreoffice.
You can do this by opening MX Tools —> MX install packages —> Flatpaks —> Libreoffice, checking and uninstalling.
Then to download the packages for the latest stable version of Libreoffice, open a terminal and run:
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://ftp.nluug.nl/office/libreoffice/libreoffice/stable/25.2.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_25.2.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz
wget https://ftp.nluug.nl/office/libreoffice/libreoffice/stable/25.2.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_25.2.0_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-GB.tar.gz
wget https://ftp.nluug.nl/office/libreoffice/libreoffice/stable/25.2.0/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_25.2.0_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_en-GB.tar.gz
Once the packages have been downloaded, to install them, run the following command in the same terminal:
for x in *.tar.gz; do tar xfv $x; done
sudo dpkg -i LibreOffice_*/DEBS/*.deb
I’ve just made the downgrade to version 24.8 through Flatpak (it’s possible, although a little tricky…), but it didn’t solve the issue! Alt+F keeps inputting only the alternative character ’ đ ', assigned to that key combination… Ctrl+Alt+F or Shift+Ctrl+F are equally uneffective, while Ctrl+F is a shortcut already assigned to ‘Find’ function…!
I prefer to not resource to an installation of LibreOffice though deb files; I used to do it until recently, but Flatpak install is much more handy. Besides, if the issue happens even with 24.8 version, installing the next 25.02.0 version would hardly solve it…