[Development] Qt/XCB applications and deadkeys (which cease working)

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Donnerstag, 8. Juni 2017 16:04:19 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Thursday June 08 2017 15:43:07 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > I just ran into the same thing today not an hour ago. No idea what
> > triggered it, but I haven't seen it before. I solved it by starting ibus,
> > but I guess that just adds another layer of interpretting keys. Also
> > newly started qt5 applications had working dead-keys too, it was just all
> > running qt5 applications that broke.
> 
> Wow, at least now I know "it's not just me" ... What DE are you using?
> 
I am running Plasma

> I installed ibus a while back to have another mechanism for swapping and
> restoring keyboard layouts. Hasn't helped me at all until now (and it's
> been running ever since I installed it).
> 
> Next time I'll see if newly started Qt applications are still affected. I
> think I must already have tried restarting the application I get this most
> often in (KDE4/Qt4 based KMail) without much success. Maybe you ran into
> the version that can be cured by cycling keyboard layouts.
> 
Note application launched via the gui are still affected becaues they are 
forked from an already running launcher. To fully start a new Qt application 
in KDE you need to launch it from a terminal.

'Allan