Public bug reported:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Enable the German keyboard layout.
2. Open a text editor of your choice.
3. Press AltGr and + (second key after P), then press a.
4. Press AltGr + Shift and +, then press a.
Expected behavior:
Key acts as a dead key, the key sequences produce ã and ā, respectively.
Actual behavior:
Key acts as a regular key, the key sequences produce ~a and ¯a,
respectively. This breaks the ability to easily input diacritics for
several languages (including Portuguese, Spanish, Estonian, Latvian,
Lithuanian).
Additional information:
Both keystrokes acted as dead keys in Ubuntu 16.04. I doubt removing the
dead key functionality was intentional: While I do understand that some
people might need the tilde key frequently but hardly ever need a tilde
accent, I cannot think of many situations in which one would require a
bare macron. Plus, for situations in which dead keys are undesirable,
there is also a “nodeadkeys” variant of the German layout, which has
been around for some time.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xkb-data 2.23.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Wed May 2 16:16:00 2018
Dependencies:
DistUpgraded: 2018-05-01 00:48:55,072 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript:
'./xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-29 (824 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-generic
root=UUID=a1cb66fa-2942-48a4-b7d8-13881405227a ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: xkeyboard-config
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-30 (1 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Virtual Machine
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubuntu
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Title:
Tilde/macron is no longer a dead key on German keyboard
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