I have upgrade to ubuntu mate 20.04 yesterday and now my typing acts as though I have the compose key permanently pressed. If I want to type, say a back quote (`) or this acute (^) I must press the key twice, which is quite annoying.
I don't need those characters to type stuff like é, but rather scripts, regex, markdown or vim and the like use them. So I often need to type those characters but really rarely do I need to type accented letters.
Before I was able to just press the key and it would pop up straight away. How do I get that functionality back?
I have tried enabling the compose key (in the hopes that it will disable that annoying system), but it didn't help. I have also tried to switch from 105 key generic (intl.) to 104 key generic (not international), but that didn't help either.
I really don't even know how to word this for searching.
My keyboard layout is set to "german", I set my compose key to capslock and it does seem to do stuff. Like compose + c + c = č
But what I want doesn't work with or without the compose key set. Also what is that "3rd Level" stuff?
There is the German (dead acute) keyboard layout, which may fit your needs. It's described like this:
(quoted from
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de)