Hello Everybody.
At this dead keys problem, I stumble upon now - however, so far, just in
LibreOffice. Ever since a few weeks, I work at a fresh install of
Kubuntu 16.04 - along with KDE Plasma 5.6.5, installed via the Kubuntu
ppa backports. Dead keys work in all applications except LibreOffice -
version 5.1.4.2. I am using the keyboard "USA International". A
character like ä is no problem in most of the applications. They same
applies for e.g. the double quotation mark (") - the key that needs to
be pressed first in order to get ä. However, in Libreoffice in my
configuration as summarised here, signs like " and ä do not show up. I
have similar problems with characters like à, é, ë, ñ. č, etc. Also
signs like `, ~ or ' do not show up in Writer or any other Libreoffice
application. It does not matter whether I work in Dutch, English,
Italian, French, German or whatever - the problem remains the same -
however, as I said, just in LibreOffice.
The only workaround I have found so far is editing a text in another
application (Kate, BlueFish or whatever) and copy-pasting it into LibreOffice.
The workaround mentioned in comment 6 does not work here. I DO manage to invoke
libreoffice from the command line - "libreoffice" does end up in the following
sequence:
========================================
bas@Viaconsensus-transit:~$ unset XMODIFIERS && libreoffice &
[1] 5908
bas@Viaconsensus-transit:~$ W: Unknown node under /registry/extlang: deprecated
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
Resource id: 0x7c02342
========================================
However, the problem is not being fixed like this.
Variants like "libreoffice4.2" or "libreoffice5" do not produce any result.
On the other hand - the simple command line command "libreoffice", without
anything else, is already enough to invoke that application. During my main
working session of today, Tuesday 20 December 2016, I have done so by purpose.
Here is the report I get from this working session.
=======================================
bas@Viaconsensus-transit:~$ libreoffice
W: Unknown node under /registry/extlang: deprecated
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
Resource id: 0x7404614
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
Resource id: 0x7406fbd
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
Resource id: 0x74079cf
Connecting to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
Application may misbehave.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
LibreOffice(2110) KSambaSharePrivate::findSmbConf: KSambaShare: Could not find
smb.conf!
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42 (X_SetInputFocus)
Resource id: 0x741bbd6
bas@Viaconsensus-transit:~$ libreoffice
W: Unknown node under /registry/extlang: deprecated
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
W: Unknown node under /registry/grandfathered: comments
LibreOffice(3111) KSambaSharePrivate::findSmbConf: KSambaShare: Could not find
smb.conf!
bas@Viaconsensus-transit:~$
=========================================
Does someone know any other fix or effective workaround, apart from
copy-paste?
Yours.
Bas G. Roufs.
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Title:
Compose and dead keys stopped working with XIM after upgrade to 16.04
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in libx11 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
After upgrading to 16.04, entering characters using dead keys and
using the Compose key stopped working in Gnome Terminal, acting like
they are normal (non-dead) keys.
Other applications, even those who use the same libvte (e.g. ROXTerm),
don't have this issue.
This happens with both the "Belgian" and "English international with
AltGr dead keys" layouts.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.18.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 22 20:45:33 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-16 (857 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
(20131016.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (0 days ago)
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