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 Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I'm seeing the same thing with Icelandic keyboard layout.
Created attachment 587567 [details] Patch which broke the keyboard layout The upstream bug report. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43173
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?
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
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).
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.