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I have a dell xps which has no scroll-lock key.

Nevertheless, when I open libreoffice-calc the scrolllock mode is enabled and I can't disable it, which renders calc completely useless.

Is there some way to disable it or to emulate pressing the scroll-lock key?

Using ubuntu 18.04.5, libreoffice-calc: 6.0.7.3

opensas
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    You might wish to view this resource: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/92025/how-to-disable-scroll-lock-feature-in-calc/ – graham Sep 03 '20 at 15:59

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1. Switch Keyboard Layouts

After trying many things the most untechical solution, just switching keyboard layouts to another language and back (DE->EN->DE for me) has surprisingly worked.

2. Try to disable scroll lock manually

Via the accessibility feature

Try to enable the keyboard screen-overlay in the accessebility settings, on some versions there might be a scroll lock key, sometimes there are just the letters.

On xfce Desktops

sudo -H gedit /etc/default/keyboard

remove: grp_led:scroll from XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

On gnome desktops

remove: 'grp_led:scroll' from

dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options

by executing

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options "['grp:alt_shift_toggle', 'numpad:microsoft']"
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Just for the record, I could solve it uninstalling calc and removing the config folder, like this:

sudo apt purge libreoffice-*

rm -fr ~/.config/libreoffice/


sudo apt install libreoffice-calc

I guess there must be a better solution, but I'll leave it here until a better answer pops up

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