Subject: bug#55660: 29.0.50; PGTK degrades to terminal-compatible keyboard events

From: Derek Upham <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 18:13:41 -0700

Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:

> What happens if you turn off input method support, by evaluating
> (pgtk-use-im-context nil)?  In general, these problems are not 
> with
> Emacs, but with GTK input method modules, and should be reported 
> to
> their developers instead.
>
> Emacs never "degrades" to "terminal-compatible" input events 
> when using
> a window system.  We directly use whatever it reports.

Calling that function restores normal rich events.

I’m using Ubuntu 20.04.  The distro installs ibus-gtk3 as part of 
the normal desktop experience, but I haven’t configured it. 
“im-config” reports that it’s using the default en_US locale.