The idea that my layout could have changed was pertinent: I did a $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration chose pc105 with AZERTY AFNOR
$ cat /etc/default/keyboard I've did a reconfiguration of my keyboard an now I have XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="fr" XKBVARIANT="afnor" XKBOPTIONS="" BACKSPACE="guess" $ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/ [/] show-all-sources=false sources=[('xkb', 'fr+azerty')] xkb-options=['lv3:ralt_switch'] as ` dead keys on the top row weren't working still, I've rebooted. I saw a show FAILED somewhere during that reboot (that didn't appeared in further reboots after) but I came to the login screen. On logscreen then, and still now, I have the french keyboard BUT with the ! (exclamation mark) replaced by the ; (semicolon) then entering the session, layout revert to normal, except that I still don't have `a or `A giving À De : "Simon McVittie" <s...@debian.org> A : gru...@laposte.net,1072...@bugs.debian.org,xkeyboard-con...@packages.debian.org,debian-l10n-fre...@lists.debian.org,i...@packages.debian.org Envoyé: dimanche 9 Juin 2024 19:36 Objet : Re: Bug#1072720: libglib2.0-0: Following fix #1070745, typing `A keys doesn't type an À anymore On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 at 18:16:01 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > However, the French layout in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr says that > pressing the 7 key (with AltGr held) sends "grave" like my UK English > layout, and not "dead_grave" like the German layout. So if that previously > participated in dead-key sequences, I don't understand why... Were you perhaps using the "latin9" or "French (legacy, alt.)" keyboard layout before? Unlike the default French keyboard layout, the latin9 layout *does* map AltGr+[7] to "dead_grave", a dead key. I don't know the name of that keyboard layout in French - it might be "Français (obsolète, variante)". Perhaps a French-speaking developer could help here? What is the output of these commands? cat /etc/default/keyboard and dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/