[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] New: Lower case space character is a deadkey for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442625

Bug ID: 1442625
           Summary: Lower case space character is a deadkey  for at least
                    US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 26
         Component: xkeyboard-config
          Severity: high
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]

Description of problem:

Lower case space character is a deadkey  for at least US keyboard and CA
keyboard layouts

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

Any nightly build following April 9th

How reproducible:

Install the nightly build

Try to type two words, or space across the GUI terminal or Web form

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Space character is a deadkey

Expected results:

No keyboard character lockout

Additional info:

Logging in via a virtual terminal works fine.  My feeling is that since the VT
works fine, this is more likely a Gnome Wayland/xorg issue.  The keyboard
layouts etc, belong to X11

All updates from the ALPHA version to recent are without keyboard issue(s).

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is a deadkey for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442625

--- Comment #1 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
I test with the nightly builds for netinstall and everything net install.

The nightly live version does not experience this problem.

When should I restart testing?

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Peter Hutterer  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Peter Hutterer  ---
is this still an issue? xkeyboard-config hasn't updated since feb, so that's
unlikely the issue.

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Leslie Satenstein  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
My keyboard is a PC105.  I omitted that info in comment 1

(PC105 international keyboard with Canada French and USA English layouts)

As mentioned in comment 1

The problem is with GNOME/Wayland.
I tested with Wayland and with Gnome.org
The virtual terminal interface does not suffer at all.

If I build from the Live ISO, it appears OK.  << Will reinstall from live ISO
to verify that Gnome/Wayland terminal handler is OK.

Peter, you have to install directly from flashdrive onto a live hardware
system.

Can't use VM. VM will intercept the keyboard handler and make it right the
virtualized Linux

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is a deadkey for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts

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--- Comment #4 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
Still a problem.  I verified that nightly build with  live.iso or network
install iso does not recognize lower case space character in gnome.

With Getty, terminal is functioning properly

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is a deadkey for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts

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--- Comment #5 from Peter Hutterer  ---
does it work within the Gnome X session?

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is a deadkey for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts

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--- Comment #6 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
(In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #5)
> does it work within the Gnome X session?

In Gnome terminal, NO.  With getty interface yes.
Getty means,   do not log into gnome, but when the log-on prompt is presented
enter ctl-alt-f3 and log into Fedora26 terminal.

Here is some additional discovery
The space bar appears to perform a layout switch.
I have the US and the Canadian French layout installed.  The space bar appears
to switch between them. -- the cursor does not advance.

I have a second Fedora26 (the alpha version +updates).  This one on the same
computer works fine.

Shift-space works fine too.

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is doing a keyboard layout switch for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts and with only one layout installed appears to act as a deadkey

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Leslie Satenstein  changed:

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            Summary|Lower case space character  |Lower case space character
                   |is a deadkey  for at least  |is doing a keyboard layout
                   |US keyboard and CA keyboard |switch for at least US
                   |layouts                     |keyboard and CA keyboard
                   |                            |layouts and with only one
                   |                            |layout installed appears to
                   |                            |act as a deadkey

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--- Comment #7 from Peter Hutterer  ---
what I meant was a GNOME *X* session, i.e. select Gnome on Xorg at the gdm
login screen (click on the gear icon after selecting your user), the default is
still Wayland.

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--- Comment #8 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
Hi Peter

I can't use either keyboard with Gnome,  Since I test gparted (it's an Xorg
session only as gparted does not run on Wayland), my problems are with both
Xorg and Wayland.

Surprisingly, the ALPHA version of F26 is just fine. (Its the nightly build
(eg, May 15th build) that still has the problem.

The space key acts as either a deadkey (when there is only 1 keyboard layout)
or a switch layout, if there are more than one layout.

I use fr (Canada French as primary, and US layout secondary).

Again, as a getty login (ctl-alt-f3...fn at the logon screen), keyboard action
is normal.

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is doing a keyboard layout switch for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts and with only one layout installed appears to act as a deadkey

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--- Comment #9 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
9 days to the F26 beta, and still no fix for the problem. I can reinstall any
nightly build that purports to correct the problem.

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is doing a keyboard layout switch for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts and with only one layout installed appears to act as a deadkey

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--- Comment #10 from Adam Williamson  ---
I can't reproduce this; I did an install from an F26 live image with French
(Canada) as the locale and "English (US)" and "French (Canada)" keyboard
layouts enabled. I created a user account during install. On logging into the
system with the user account, en layout was selected, and space bar worked
normally; after switching to the ca layout, space bar still works normally.

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1442625] Lower case space character is doing a keyboard layout switch for at least US keyboard and CA keyboard layouts and with only one layout installed appears to act as a deadkey

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Leslie Satenstein  changed:

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        Last Closed|                            |2017-05-23 13:56:04

--- Comment #11 from Leslie Satenstein  ---
With update from 23 May, 2017, the problem has been resolved.

I tested the live ISO

I will do the same test with the network installation version and if it is
buggy, I will reopen this bug report.

Thank you all