Right Alt not working reliably as compose key unless the layout in effect is first in the list of sources
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I noticed after upgrade from impish to jammy that my compose key is not working correctly.
Going into gnome-control-
Setting Alternate Characters Key to None, and moving the Compose Key setting around between different options (and then back to Right Alt), the behavior of the Right Alt key is still AltGr and not Compose. From xev:
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0x50e, subw 0x0, time 287242336, (310,502), root:(434,617),
state 0x10, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKe
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0x50e, subw 0x0, time 287242456, (310,502), root:(434,617),
state 0x90, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKe
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 18 16:01:10 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-23 (847 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-15 (3 days ago)
tags: | removed: impish |
Hi Steve,
Can you please let us know the output of this command:
gsettings get org.gnome. desktop. input-sources xkb-options
when your settings combo gives you the reported xev output for Right Alt.