Jeremy Bícha wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM Frederic Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
After upgrading from 4.18.6 to 4.20.1 compose and dead keys (e.g. ^ then e on a.
French layout keyboard) stopped working; typing compose ' e inputs 'e instead.
of é, typing ^e inputs "e" instead of "ê".
Switching back to a X11 session restored the expected behaviour.
I am unable to reproduce this issue with the information you have
provided, using Debian Testing today.
I created a new user and it also happens for it, also I forgot to note
this but keys are working fine in other programs (GTK3, Firefox,
Kitty).
I went digging and I found the discussion in
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/7581
| On Wayland, this is entirely the responsibility of the compositor:
| we no longer do any compose handling on the client side.
with a link to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/621b7facc8b098811f659a0cba56d27e6ae39ea2
and ultimately I read the NEWS file and the note for 4.19.2:
Note: This release makes GTK rely on the Wayland text protocol
for input method support. For compositors without that protocol,
you can manually set GTK_IM_MODULE=simple to get back support for
X11-style compose sequences and dead keys.
and that's it, installing ibus fixed that for me.
ibus is already a Recommends: on gnome-shell, I don't know how GTK
applications would behave on other compositors, and if it would make
sense to add a recommends to gtk4 itself, I'll leave you as the judge
for that.
Thanks,
Fred
