Can't enter capital accented letters with Caps Lock on Wayland

changed from gnome-text-editor to wayland package

Today I have updated the details of this bug report.
After the 23.10 has been definitely released I went to a fresh installation in a different partition and realized that there were no problems with accented capital letters during the live session. So I thought the problem could be related to X11/wayland sessions.
In fact running the xlsclients I could see that the problem doesn't effect softwares that use xwayland .

Previous bug description and details were pointing the gnome-text-editor package, which is the first software that showed that problem. Now the report is pointing to the wayland package... NOT sure this is 100% correct but the issue should be more related to that area.

EDIT:
ok, just seen the package has been switched from wayland to gtk3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Same here on a French keyboard.

In a Wayland session, softwares such as Gedit, Thunderbird or Libre Office are unable to display accented capiatals using caps-lock (but VSCode works fine). In an X11 session everythings works as expected.

It's an upstream GNOME issue and landed a fix recently, see details on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240490 , it should be included in the 45.1 updates

Hello Jeremie, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mutter into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/45.2-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted mutter (45.2-0ubuntu1) for mantic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

mutter/45.2-0ubuntu1 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/mantic/update_excuses.html#mutter

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

I successfully completed the test case with mutter 45.2-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 23.10.

I wanted to test the updated version of mutter so a couple of days ago I enabled the `proposed` repository, but I didn't receive any updates.

I don't know if I did something wrong, however my sources.list has the line:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed main multiverse restricted universe

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 45.2-1ubuntu1

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mutter (45.2-1ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian. Remaining changes:
    - Add x11-Add-support-for-fractional-scaling-using-Randr.patch
    - Add window-Add-ability-to-override-the-edge-constraints.patch
      + Make possible for extensions (such as Tiling Assistant) to override
        window constraints

mutter (45.2-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2043000)
  * Drop patches applied in new release
  * Drop unimportant patch not included in the mutter 45.2 backports

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:19:05 -0500

> I wanted to test the updated version of mutter so a couple of days ago I enabled the `proposed`
> repository, but I didn't receive any updates.

Jeremie, you also have to pass "-t mantic-proposed" in the apt command line.

> Jeremie, you also have to pass "-t mantic-proposed" in the apt command line.

Ok, I've updated the packages to version 45.2 and now I can enter capital accented letters ÒÀÙÈÉÌ as expected.

Thank you very much, great job!

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 45.2-0ubuntu1

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mutter (45.2-0ubuntu1) mantic; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bícha ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #2043000)
    - Fix entering capital accent letters with Caps Lock (LP: #2035076)
    - Fix Wacom on X11 issues (LP: #2043027)
  * debian/libmutter-13-0.symbols: Add new symbols
  * Drop patches applied in new release
  * Rebase X11 fractional scaling patch

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Rebase triple buffering patch

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:45:25 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for mutter has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

I am reopening this issue because this update was reverted to avoid a regression. The update will be proposed again in January.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/45.2-0ubuntu2~really45.0

Hello Jeremie, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mutter into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/45.2-0ubuntu3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

OK, it works

I've tried version 45.2-0ubuntu3 and can regularly type ÒÀÙÈÉÌ in the text editor, terminal, etc.

Hello,

I'm facing a similar issue, using mantic. In noble development I haven't come across this bug thus far.

I'm using the hellenic (greek) keyboard trying to type the following capital letters in ubuntu wayland: Ρ(R), Y, Ψ(C), Ζ. In parenthesis I'm adding the corresponding english letters if applicable. Instead, I'm getting the small letters ρ, υ, ψ, ζ. The applications tested are: text editor, libreoffice, gnome-calendar, gnome-terminal, application finder, firefox. I do not face such an issue in opera browser though.

In my case what is different is that these letters are not accented (only υ/Υ can take an accent ύ/Ύ, yet this is not a separate key, I just have to press : before the letter in order to take the accent. I can bypass this, by pressing shift and the letter in question.

I enabled mantic proposed, yet I couldn't come across the package in question. Under xorg I didn't notice this issue.

Regards!

@lastexile7gr

The package doesn't come automatically with the updates, you have to pass "-t mantic-proposed" when using apt.
This is the command I've used to update the mutter package in my system:

sudo apt install mutter-common -t mantic-proposed

Hello,

thank you for your response.
Trying the command you mention, this is the result I'm getting:
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'mantic-proposed' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

just to clarify that I had enabled the proposed repo under synaptic package manager the first time, and the mutter package in question was not available from there either.

edit: I went in synaptic and enabled mantic proposed from there, and then I issued the command in question. Doing so the installation of the package in question went fine and the issue seems to be solved.

Regards!