Dead Keys do not work inside Snap Packages in Bionic

[Tiago Fassoni]

Hello, I am using Ubuntu Bionic Beta 2.

Dead keys (like á, à, é) do not work inside snap packages. They work fine in normal (Qt, GTK) apps, installed by deb packages.

I have tried:
- Portuguese and English language
- Keyboard layouts us international with dead keys and portuguese brazil.

And nothing seems to work.

Thanks!

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Hi Tiago,

I don't understand what you mean when using dead keys? Can you be more explicit?

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Or, in other words, is this a MAAS bug, or is this a snap bug ?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

Can you please let us know which snaps you have tried and where you observed this issue.

[Tiago Fassoni (tiagofassoni)]

I didn't know what MAAS even existed until you mentioned it.

It seems to be a tool for provisioning servers, but I am using ubuntu
desktop.

Also, the snap apps I am using which fail to have accents:
- Telegram Desktop
- Pycharm
- Datagrip

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Or, in other words, is this a MAAS bug, or is this a snap bug ?
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767140
>
> Title:
> Dead Keys do not work inside Snap Packages in Bionic
>
> Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hello, I am using Ubuntu Bionic Beta 2.
>
> Dead keys (like á, à, é) do not work inside snap packages. They work
> fine in normal (Qt, GTK) apps, installed by deb packages.
>
> I have tried:
> - Portuguese and English language
> - Keyboard layouts us international with dead keys and portuguese brazil.
>
> And nothing seems to work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/
> 1767140/+subscriptions
>

[Tiago Fassoni (tiagofassoni)]

Thank you so much for your quick triaging.

I have tried on the following snaps:
- Telegram Desktop
- Pycharm
- Datagrip.

Dead keys didn't work in any of them.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thanks for your report.
>
> Can you please let us know which snaps you have tried and where you
> observed this issue.
>
> ** Project changed: maas => snapd (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => New
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767140
>
> Title:
> Dead Keys do not work inside Snap Packages in Bionic
>
> Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hello, I am using Ubuntu Bionic Beta 2.
>
> Dead keys (like á, à, é) do not work inside snap packages. They work
> fine in normal (Qt, GTK) apps, installed by deb packages.
>
> I have tried:
> - Portuguese and English language
> - Keyboard layouts us international with dead keys and portuguese brazil.
>
> And nothing seems to work.
>
> Thanks!
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/
> 1767140/+subscriptions
>

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I installed the PyCharm snap on my Ubuntu 18.04 and couldn't reproduce the issue. The dead key for typing characters like é and à works fine for me. So this may not be a snapd issue after all.

To proceed with this we need a use case where you step by step explain how the issue can be reproduced.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for snapd (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Iuri Diniz (iuridiniz)]

Still on ubuntu 18.10.

[Iuri Diniz (iuridiniz)]

Just ccedila for me (us international keyboard), I could re-enable it by exporting this variables:

GTK_IM_MODULE=cedilla
QT_IM_MODULE=cedilla

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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