Accent does not work in applications installed with snap

[rmasad]

A strange error is that the accent does not work in applications installed with snap (I'm Latin American, we have characters like á, é, í or ú).

I tried i3wm and Gnome, accents work well in both.

Sway version: 1.9 Ubuntu version: 24.04

[rmasad]

Update: reviewing, it is not all Snap applications that fail, so far the ones I see with problems are: Slack, Discord, Brave and Mailspring.

[xvkdev]

@rmasad Do Chrome and firefox work, for example when writing emails on gmail?

[rmasad]

Neither Chromium nor Firefox installed by snap accents work. Chrome (installed by your ppa) works perfectly.

[xvkdev]

What about for example, the terminal?

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Neither Chromium nor Firefox installed by snap accents work. Chrome (installed by your ppa) works perfectly.

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[rmasad]

What command in the terminal?

[xvkdev]

Doesn't matter, just try to get a letter with a tilde.

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What command in the terminal?

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[rmasad]

Works the tildes in my terminals.

I think it's a combination of chromium/electron, snap and sway.

[cfsmp3]

For me they won't work (in any app, except alacritty, but I have that one with explicit key bindings).

Just in case I tried firefox from .deb and of course it didn't work. That would have been quite the miracle :-)

[rmasad]

I think I found the problem. When entering Chromium and forcing it to use Wayland, accents work.

Apparently snap applications that use electron have this problem.

When trying to force the use of Wayland on some, it gives an error:

mailspring --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto
[59198:0625/130002.609262:ERROR:wayland_connection.cc(224)] Failed to connect to Wayland display: No such file or directory (2)
[59198:0625/130002.609301:ERROR:ozone_platform_wayland.cc(223)] Failed to initialize Wayland platform
[59198:0625/130002.609304:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.
[0625/130002.618119:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
[1]    59198 IOT instruction (core dumped)  mailspring --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations

[cfsmp3]

Apparently snap applications that use electron have this problem.

Do Chrome or Firefox use electron at all?

Anyway while I'm suffering the same problem (no accents), for me it's a global problem, unrelated to snap (AFAIT) or electron.