Bug 2241601 - Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)
Summary: Fedora input broke the fr(oss) French layout (default Fedora French layout)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xkeyboard-config
Version: 40
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-10-01 07:24 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2025-04-15 02:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2025-04-14 07:58:33 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2023-10-01 07:24:40 UTC
fr(oss) is supposed to emit French upper case accented letters in caps locks mode ÉÈÇÀ

Something changed in the past months and it emits lower case instead. So you get very annoying mixed-case éLéGANT runs of text in caps locks.

Explicit level 4 capital selection still works but this change breaks existing user habits and is very inconvenient for new users.

To be honest I’ve noticed the breakage for some time but was hoping it was a stupid mistake that would go away with time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. switch to fr(oss)
2. set cap locks
3. tap the first (number) row → letters with diacritics should be emitted in upper case, for example É, not lower case é

It is not a bug that cap locks produces symbols and accented letters. In azerty, unlike qwerty, access to the diacritics necessary to type proper French is prioritized over access to numbers

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2023-10-02 09:59:57 UTC
Any chance you can test an older xkeyboard-config? They're compatible between releases anyway so you should be able to install virtually any older one. Or you could even just bisect through the upstream `symbols/fr` file by copying it over your system one for each bisect stage. I can't find any immediate smoking gun in the recent commit log for that file, so let's hope you have more luck.

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-02-15 22:58:36 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 40 development cycle.
Changing version to 40.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2025-04-14 07:58:33 UTC
Looks fine to me in f41 and F42 at least

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2025-04-15 02:37:50 UTC
and current F40 Live respin


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