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I use the GR-el version of the latest Firefox on Kubuntu 15.04. After the latest (2015-May-1) update, I can't have dead keys produce accents for (Greek GR-el / UTF-8).
I can bypass this problem by running Firefox from the console with sudo.
Would there be a way to fix the problem in a simpler and permanent way? Thank you in advance.

NB01. There is no dead-keys problem with any other app.
NB02. This doesn't occur in Opera; dead-keys for Greek are OK.
NB03. This does happen in Mindori (for UTF-8).

I did sudo apt-purge firefox, reboot, re-installation but the problem remains.
Can someone suggest antoher workaround

Is this due to some bug referring to a Ubuntu 15.04 system parameter?

PS. I re-installed Kubuntu 15.04; then I installed software and fonts I need checking firefox at each step. The problem re-appeared when I ran ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Un-installation didn't work. So, I un-installed ibus as you guys suggested, and now I have back my dead-keys.

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  • Not working for me as well. Can make it work by calling unset XMODIFIER (which is @im=ibus). This might be a regression of https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=526 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/335732 . – Pavel Horal May 04 '15 at 08:26

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I was able to make it work by permanently disabling IBus with the following command (based on this answer):

im-config -n xim

Not sure whether IBus should be the default input method or not in new Kubuntu/KDE. So I don't know if this is more workaround or an actual fix (and IBus should not be used at all). Would be nice if someone with more in-depth knowledge can comment on that.

You can get rid of ibus package completely by sudo apt-get remove ibus (see comments).

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Pavel Horal
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  • My upgrade path was from 14.04 LTS and I ended with ibus installed (it was probably there from the beginning). My colleague has fresh 14.10 and he don't have ibus installed (checked by im-config -l). So by default ibus should probably not be present in the system at all. – Pavel Horal May 04 '15 at 08:56
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    Just removed ibus completely and everything seems fine. So feel free to get rid of it as well. – Pavel Horal May 05 '15 at 19:15
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Try the code im-config -l, if it shows problems setting LC_ALL, put this in your /etc/invironment file:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

according with your locale.

Reboot and LibreOffice should now process dead keys.

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Lluís Turró Cutiller
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I had similar problems on 14.04 (and now on a freshly installed 15.04), mainly with LibreOffice and Netbeans. A solution was to unset the XMODIFIERS variable:

unset XMODIFIERS && commandYouWant

So I made some aliases for those commands. But honestly, I have no clue why this worked (apart from the fact that the problem had something to do with ibus), and what was the exact nature of the problem (more over, the problem was sometimes present, sometimes not, and sometimes suddenly the dead keys stopped working (mostly after switching windows)).

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