re-upping in 2026 in Resolute, because I just hit this, and landed here, and you did leave it open. ;-) Maybe my configuration is a little less *unusual* and so worth another look. Also, some extra observations.
This is on an Intel-based Dell laptop, running all up to date and not- much-customised Resolute 26.04, in Gnome, with Wayland (obviously). In my case the secondary keyboard layout in question is "English (UK) Macintosh". The primary is just "English (UK)". As most of my other computers are macs, when I'm using this in clamshell mode, I prefer to use a Mac keyboard on this too, which mostly works fine, although I do wish it could emulate the Mac's way of entering special characters as I have more of them memorised... (In details which I think are irrelevant: It's a Keychron V6 Max in Mac layout, usually connected via bluetooth. Wireless USB dongle tested too, no difference.) $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options ['compose:ralt', 'lv3:lalt_switch'] Alternative Characters Key was set to "Layout Default". On deselecting that and not selecting any of the keys, no change. The new findings I didn't see above: In fact it doesn't work to select *any* of the available keys to be the compose key. The choice appears to be simply ignored. It doesn't seem to be specific to Right Alt and therefore a possible clash with other functionality trying to use it. I didn't exhaustively try them all but did try Caps Lock, Right Super, Right Ctrl and Insert. They all just kept on performing their usual functions. Logging out/in made no difference. What does work: Making it the first input source in the list, Compose instantly works perfectly (no restarts needed) with Right Alt selected, but the layout that *was* there, (English (UK) in my case) now in second place, now does not have functioning compose. So it really does seem to be completely agnostic to the specific keyboard layout, it just only works for the first one, whatever it is. So the workaround remains, when you change input source you have to go to keyboard settings and change it to be the first/default one. A this is a change that happens going between standalone and clamshell/docked mode, it's going to be frequent enough to be annoying. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969396 Title: Right Alt not working reliably as compose key unless the layout in effect is first in the list of sources To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1969396/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
