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/
