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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1226962 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962

This fixed my problem today (Ubuntu 14.04, LibreOffice 4.2.8.2, English and Hebrew keyboard):
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-gtk and libreoffice-gnome
joojisan published this solution on en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1586

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Title:
  All hotkeys of LibreOffice don't work in non-English keyboard layout
  [ubuntu 13.10]

Status in LibreOffice:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in libreoffice package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Hotkeys (Ctrl+b, Ctrl+s etc) in LibreOffice are language dependent and
  work in English language only. While writing in any other language
  i.e. any Cyrillic, it's impossible to use hotkeys, they just don't do
  anything. Switching to English input language enable hotkeys once
  again. This is very frustrating as user needs to switch language to
  save document, to make it bold, or italic, etc.

  This was not experienced in Ubuntu 13.04.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. System Settings > Text Entry.
  2. Add another keyboard layout beside English [In my case it is Bengali (Probhat)] 
  3. Now launch Writer.
  4. Switch the keyboard layout from English (US) to Bengali (Probhat) by pressing Ctrl+Space.
  5. Press Ctrl+B to change font weight to bold.

  Error: 
  Font weight does not get changed.

  Expected: 
  Font weight should change to bold.

  Note:
  none other system hotkeys work as expected. I.e. Ctrl+s to save, or Ctrl+b to subscript, or Ctrl+i to italic etc.

  Workaround: 
  The only way is to -
  1. change the keyboard layout to English
  2. then press desired hotkey
  3. then switch keyboard layout back to Bengali.

  The issue is critical, as it make writer very slow for keyboard-only
  typing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: libreoffice-core 1:4.1.2~rc3-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 31 10:11:53 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-13 (170 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-26 (4 days ago)

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