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greeenstone

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Registered: 2022-02-20

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Deadkeys wont go away

Hey everyone,
I would like to get rid of the deadkey of my keyboard. This means that now I have to type two backticks (`) to get one in the end. Pressing the first, one backtick appears and pressing the second time, exits the "dead-key-mode". The same is true with ^ and `.
My keyboardlayout is 

$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
                  LC_TIME=de_CH.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: de-latin1-nodeadkeys
      X11 Layout: de
       X11 Model: acer_laptop
     X11 Variant: nodeadkeys

any idea what I am doing wrong?

Last edited by greeenstone (2022-02-24 16:19:50)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,063

Re: [SOLVED] Deadkeys wont go away

Pressing the first, one backtick appears and pressing the second time, exits the "dead-key-mode".

This doesn't make sense.
"deadkeys" means that you can NOT press `+e to get è but that pressing ` immediately gets you the ` - ie. the behavior you describe seems to match the setup?
Or do you get some sort of "delayed dead-key" where you get an ` immediately but when pressing some complementary key (a, e, etc.) you get the diacritic?

In any event: in what environment?
Console, X11, wayland - and what client is affected (eg. xterm, gedit, …)?

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greeenstone

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Registered: 2022-02-20

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Deadkeys wont go away

I am using wayland. In this case, I apologize for having a wrong understanding of the term "deadkeys".

However, I was able to achieve the desired behavior, by setting (in the gnome-settings GUI) the keyboard from "german" to "german (no dead keys)".

Strangely, the output of

localectl status

did not change (even after reboot).

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Deadkeys wont go away

Nothing there's relevant to the wayland configuration where this is down to the specific implementation (ie. changing gnome-settings is the correct and only way to impact this for gnome, "X11 Variant: nodeadkeys" might still impact xwayland clients, ie. X11 applications that run in a nested X11 server on the gnome/wayland session)

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