Bug 826220

Summary: Tilda is now a dead key (for accented chars)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard Allen <ra>
Component: xkeyboard-configAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: peter.hutterer, tommi
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Patch which broke the keyboard layout
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Description Richard Allen 2012-05-29 19:39:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
New in Fedora 17 is that the tilda character '~' is now a dead key.    when I want to access my home directory (~ra) in a gnome-terminal (or any other X program) I have to hit the tilda key and then a space to make the tilda appear.  If I forget the space it tries to create a 'r' with a tilda on top, which does not exist so I get a beep and a bad command.  I feel that retraining me (and other *nix geeks) to remember to put in a space character after the tilda on Linux platforms only is not very practical

This does not happen on a Virtual Console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 17

How reproducible:
Open gnome-terminal or xterm and attempt to access some users $HOME via the tilde (~username) system.
Open firefox and type in the URL of some users home (http://server/~username)
Or just do anything with a tilda.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. press tilda key
2. see no tilda appear on screen
3. press space, see tilda appear
  
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Comment 1 Tomas Edwardsson 2012-05-29 19:49:40 UTC 
I'm seeing the same thing with Icelandic keyboard layout.
Comment 2 Tomas Edwardsson 2012-05-30 00:47:12 UTC 
Created attachment 587567 [details]
Patch which broke the keyboard layout

The upstream bug report.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43173
Comment 3 Tomas Edwardsson 2012-06-01 21:47:50 UTC 
Created attachment 588586 [details]
Fix dead key issue

The problem has been fixed upstream. Question if the patch can be applied to fedora 17 as well?
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-06-26 03:29:21 UTC 
xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-06-26 21:29:45 UTC 
Package xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9939/xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-07-02 22:26:45 UTC 
xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-3.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.