Dead keys doesn't work with text processors in Ubuntu 20.4

limonta · 05-07-2021, 08:02 AM

Since a time ago I'm experimenting problems with dead keys in text processors like LibreOffice Writer, also with FeatherPad, in Telegram desktop official tool, but not in navigators like Google Chrome or Firefox. I use a lot the accent mark for spanish writing. I have Lubuntu distribution installed:

Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-71-generic.

Any help will be very appreciated.

shruggy · 05-07-2021, 08:12 AM

Could you be a bit more specific about what exactly doesn't work? There was a recent thread about dead keys behaving differently than before.

limonta · 05-07-2021, 08:33 AM

When I press the dead accent key, and then any vowel key like "a" or "e", here in the navigator I obtain this: [á] [é], as usual, but in LibreOffice Writer, FeatherPad or the Telegram desktop official version, I don't obtain the same result; it doesn't works.

shruggy · 05-07-2021, 08:55 AM

For me, the difference is that in Firefox it works as usual (as you described it), but in LibreOffice Writer I also get a preview of the accent as described in the linked thread. But it works nevertheless, just fancier than before.

limonta · 05-07-2021, 08:56 AM

When I press the dead accent key, and then any vowel key like "a" or "e", here in the navigator I obtain this: [á] [é], as usual, but in LibreOffice Writer, FeatherPad or the Telegram desktop official version, I don't obtain the same result; it doesn't works.