The last couple of days, my dead keys have stopped working in Geany. Dead keys is when you press ' followed by a to make á. If you press ' followed by a space you get a proper '. Same for " and ^.
When I press ' in Geany, the top bar sort of flashes and the cursor moves one position to the right, but no actual character is produced (or stored, as I noticed from doing a hexedit).
It's just Geany. In other text processors, like LO Writer, Gedit, terminal or an HTML text field such as this, all is well. For programming, I need a lot of 's and "s.
I disabled all Geany plugins, exited the program, restarted, and even rebooted, but there was no change.
What could be wrong? Anyone else having this problem?
EDIT: I just realised that I have been booting a Wayland session rather than plain old Xorg for a while. Can anybody confirm that this may cause the dead keys phenomenon?
Answering my own question: it depends on whether, at the login screen, I choose an "Ubuntu" session or "Ubuntu on Wayland".
The former starts plain
Xorg; there the dead keys work as designed. Under Wayland they don't. I see that some bugs have been reported about composing keys in the recent past.Having no pressing reason to use Wayland, I now switch back to Xorg.