Annoying behavior when typing accents.

I know is not a big deal and maybe it’s a silly question, but this is really annoying me and I hope somebody help me.

After installing 15.4 in my old laptop, I notice something different. Every time that I type some accent key they show up in the text box with a underline character, just like the image. They usually stay hide until I press another key.
https://files.catbox.moe/7ixcmj.png

On KDE this only happen on browsers, but when using Gnome, this happen everywhere. I made a quick test using another VM with KDE Neon and the typing works normally, just like in the Opensuse 15.3. So it’s a Opensuse 15.4 thing.

Any Idea to fix that?

I made another test and installed Falkon and Konqueror, two Qt browsers, and there is no annoying underline on both when typing accents. So I can only conclude that is another GTK issue.

Não é um “comportamento estranho”, é uma funcionalidade.

Quaisquer método de entrada que use GTK há de se comportar à mesma, ajuda ao se utilizar linguagens de programação onde tem-se de escrever o acento grave mais de uma vez, a exemplo do markdown.

E não, aparentemente, não há volta.

E não, aparentemente, não há volta.

Esse era o meu temor. Está parecido quando o google muda a interfaçe do youtube sem ninguém pedir por tal e todo mundo tem que engolir. Faz parte.

O jeito é se adaptar(ou se o TOC realmente bater pesado, pensar em mudar pro KDE neon). Mas acho que ficarei mais um tempinho usando o 15.3 no PC principal.

Obrigado pela atenção.

Or, a VirtualBox issue – you seem to be running Leap in a Virtual Machine …

Certainly not. I don’t see this effect. I have a German keyboard and layout German (dead tilde). When I type Portuguese special characters everything is fine. Which is your keyboard and layout? Do you start Plasma Wayland or X11?

Best regards,
Bequimao

I use virtualbox only to make some tests and get some screenshots to post. On my laptop, with a fresh and normal install of 15.4 running KDE, this happens too.

My notebook is an Acer with a PT-BR keyboard, with defaults settings. And I’m starting using X11.

And the underline shows up only when I type accents keys(~ ` ´ ^) , when I press the Ç key, no underline.

Really weird.

As I said, a functionality.

https://blog.gtk.org/2021/03/24/input-revisited/

Great. Now I have a reason to hate Gnome/GTK devs even more.

Now I see the same behaviour with my German dead tilde keyboard. Sorry, disregard my post #6.

It is really annoying. One might even think that dead keys stopped working and stop typing,

Abraços
Bequimão

It’s also happening with Firefox and a German “no dead keys” keyboard …

  • But, not with all key sequences – only some things which don’t misbehave on this Laptop keyboard – only with my Cherry keyboard on the Desktop machine … >:)

I have a German keyboard as well, and the T3 keyboard with lots of dead keys. (^ ` ´ ˙ˇ¨ ¯ ˝ ˘ ~ ° ̉ ̛ ¸,˛ ̣ ), and this isn’t limited to firefox and gtk application, it’s everywhere, even xterm has it.

Though I don’t really consider it annoying per se (though I could live without it), as I’m quite proficient with the dead keys of my keyboard, I mean there’s a reason I’ve activated the T3 keyboard layout, Şơ ı cøűłð ŵŕïŧə æll þiſ without using the character map, heck I even get uppercase **ẞ, **proper feet (′) and inch (″) characters, ≤ ≥ and much more. Too bad the German T3 layout was retired in favor of the E1/E2. With the T3 I have a proper Cherry keyboard with the keys correctly labelled, no real hardware with the E1 exists. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2_(Tastaturbelegung), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung))

I wouldn’t mind being able to deactivate it, though.

If the appearance of these isn’t consistent, it’s maybe because some compose sequences get triggered?

And the must funny thing is that I still need to press keys at least 6 times to get ´´´ on firefox. At least now we can see a cut underline sign every time we type a dead key and there is nothing we can do to revert it …

Yay…