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xkeyboard-config package

  1. Bug #1573755
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1573755

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote : Re: Compose and dead keys stopped working

I can reproduce this XIM problem on a system which was upgraded to 16.04, but not on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04. However: If I create and switch to a new user, the problem is not present. In other words: Some leftovers from previous version(s) in the home directory of my main user prevent the XIM input method from working properly.

Resetting the gtk-im-module gsettings key, as mentioned by Piotr, doesn't help for me. Neither does removing of the whole gsettings database ~/.config/dconf/user

For the record: On Ubuntu and most flavors, switching to some other input method can be done from the Language Support GUI. Doing so changes the ~/.xinputrc file instead of removing it.