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Using Mozilla Firefox 68.0.1 on Ubuntu 19.04 x86_64 on a Dell G3 3579.

Using keyboard layout International (AltGr dead keys). The keyboard works as expected in the terminal or gedit, but for some reason, on Firefox, it doesn't. Pressing AltGr + ' doesn't create a dead key but just produces a '.

Exeleration-G
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    Please go to Settings -> Region & Language and click the Input Sources gearwheel icon. Is the option "Use the same source for all windows" selected? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 05 '19 at 08:12
  • Maybe im-config related. im-config -m please. – nobody Aug 12 '19 at 11:12
  • Does or Chromium or Chrome do the same thing? Does an older version of Firefox do the same thing? Does installing a different kernel version do the same thing? I'm wondering if we can narrow it down somehow... – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 15 '19 at 01:07
  • I have the exactly same issue after upgrade from debian stretch to buster. All the gnome's app works correctly, but firefox, chrome or slack don't... – krichprollsch Sep 03 '19 at 07:48
  • I finally fix the issue using:

    setxkbmap -rules evdev -model pc105 -layout us -variant altgr-intl

     – krichprollsch Sep 03 '19 at 19:15
  • I still have this issue. I can type \`` but Firefox from the Ubuntu package fails French accents that require a combination of keys likeêandï`. However dead keys work on other programs like Thunderbird or Firefox binary from Mozilla. Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1924586 – baptx Apr 15 '21 at 16:07

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Terminal and Gedit are Gnome products but FireFox is not. You could try the Unity Desktop:

Although written for 17.10 and 18.04 the same installation techniques apply with 19.04.

For a different set of screenshots with Ubuntu 19.04 installation of Unity see:

The only other thing I can think of trying is a different version of Firefox but I'm not sure how successful this would be:

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The simplest way seams to put the call setxkbmap [lang], where lang = de, en etc. to /etc/profile or any other configuration file, read for all users.

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