Wayland - Capital accented letters not recognized

Bug #2035076 reported by Jeremie Tamburini
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mutter
Fix Released
Unknown
mutter (Fedora)
Unknown
Unknown
mutter (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Most programs don't recognize Italian accented capital letters.
When "Caps Lock" is on àèìòù should be written as ÀÈÌÒÙ... but for some reasons they are not capitalized.
I've noticed that everything works fine using the Live session which still uses X11 session.

It looks there's no problem with programs that use xwayland like Gimp and MarkText.

WORKAROUND
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In "Settings -> Keyboard" it's possible to set a "compose key".
For example I've selected the [Super left] key. If I want to compose È I press and immediately release each key:
[Super left] + [E] + [Alt Gr] + [']

If you want É:
[Super left] + [E] + [']

Do the same for the other vowels.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-text-editor 45~beta-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.3.0-7.7-generic 6.3.5
Uname: Linux 6.3.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 11 11:48:41 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-07 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230906.3)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-text-editor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jeremie Tamburini (jeremie2) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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Jeremie Tamburini (jeremie2) wrote :

changed from gnome-text-editor to wayland package

summary: - Capital accented letters not recognized
+ Wayland - Capital accented letters not recognized
affects: gnome-text-editor (Ubuntu) → wayland (Ubuntu)
description: updated
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
affects: wayland (Ubuntu) → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Jeremie Tamburini (jeremie2) wrote (last edit ):

Today I have updated the details of this bug report.
After the 23.10 has been definitely released I went to a fresh installation in a different partition and realized that there were no problems with accented capital letters during the live session. So I thought the problem could be related to X11/wayland sessions.
In fact running the xlsclients I could see that the problem doesn't effect softwares that use xwayland .

Previous bug description and details were pointing the gnome-text-editor package, which is the first software that showed that problem. Now the report is pointing to the wayland package... NOT sure this is 100% correct but the issue should be more related to that area.

EDIT:
ok, just seen the package has been switched from wayland to gtk3

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Antoine-terracol (antoine-terracol) wrote :

Same here on a French keyboard.

In a Wayland session, softwares such as Gedit, Thunderbird or Libre Office are unable to display accented capiatals using caps-lock (but VSCode works fine). In an X11 session everythings works as expected.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

It's an upstream GNOME issue and landed a fix recently, see details on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240490 , it should be included in the 45.1 updates

affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
affects: ubuntu → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu)
tags: added: fixed-in-mutter-45.1 fixed-upstream
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in mutter:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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