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Martin Hope
Leo Zerino
Asked: 2020-06-07 07:55:12 +0800 CST
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Since I removed gnome and started using a WM only setup (bspwm) apps like st, urxvt, emacs and even alacritty stoped smart managing dead keys. Chrome, brave, firefox and gnome-terminal still do though, why is that?

By smart managing, I mean when you hit tilde ~ and then a you get ã, but if you double hit tilde, you get it alone ~

st and alikes just won't work with dead keys. Won't render ã õ á ó ú í and even ~ ´ ^ . I have to switch the kb layout in order to have at least tilde alone (~) which is very tedious:

setxkbmap -model abnt2 -layout br -option caps:escape -variant nodeadkeys

In my archlinux system everything works fine by default, no extra setup required and I'm using no DE in there also, only dwm as wm

I have tried so many methods for the past 5 months that I can't even recall. Some enlightment would be greatly apreciated.

What's responsible for system-wide dead-key management on Ubuntu?

EDIT:

output of cat /etc/default/keyboard

XKBLAYOUT="br"
BACKSPACE="guess"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBMODEL="abnt2"
XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
gnome keyboard keyboard-layout dead-keys
Martin Hope
Leo Zerino
Asked: 2020-02-07 20:53:24 +0800 CST
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I'm able to normaly use dead keys over the whole system.

FYI I live in Brazil and we use accented letters, as in é á ó ã õ.

We need dead key support for this as we type first the accent key " ´ " and then the proper key " a " to get and á

It doesn't work in terminals like 'st' and 'urxvt' tough. I've searched thoroughly over the internet to no avail.

EDIT:

Change keyboard layout (English UK) on command line to English US doesn't solve my problem, as it is urxvt and st related.

Modern terminals like "tilix" or "gnome-terminal" are able to produce "á é é" characters

keyboard dead-keys rxvt
Martin Hope
Leo Zerino
Asked: 2019-05-18 14:33:43 +0800 CST
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I installed qemu using apt and got version 2.11. Decided to use a more recent version and downloaded the source for 4.0. Removed apt version with a:

apt remove qemu

successfully compiled version 4.0, but running "--version" results in version 2.11:

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.13)
Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

have I removed it wrongly? will I have to compile it again? It took so much time...

compiling apt qemu
Martin Hope
Leo Zerino
Asked: 2019-04-20 18:26:34 +0800 CST
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I was trying to get a better performance with my touchpad, installing synaptics packages.

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

It complained about unmet dependencies, pointing to xserver-xorg-core package.

Then I noticed I had different xorg packages installed and tried to switch the mentioned one, by running: 

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

But then, it started uninstalling xorg hwe stuff, it uninstalled like 9 packages or so.

I then proceeded to install the synaptics packages I needed and rebooted.

No graphics then. Tried to reinstall hwe:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04 (done a cache search to remember it)

was successful, but installed only 2 packages and nothing changed

tl:dr

Do I need to reinstall xorg core hwe packs so I can restore GUI or what?

xorg