Issues with Accented Characters in Chromium-based Applications Using Ozone=X11 in Sway

[rmasad]

Sway Version: 1.9 Ubuntu 24-04

Description: When opening Chromium-based applications (or Electron apps) using Ozone=X11 (default), accented characters (á é í ó ú) do not work. However, when opening these applications with Ozone=wayland, the accented characters function correctly.

This behavior is observed only in Sway. It does not occur in Gnome or i3wm.

This is particularly problematic because snap applications cannot be opened with Wayland as they crash.

This issue is a more specific report of the problem described in this issue: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8208.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a Chromium-based application (or Electron app) in Sway using Ozone=X11.
2. Attempt to type accented characters (á é í ó ú).

Expected Behavior: Accented characters should appear correctly when typed.

Actual Behavior: Accented characters do not work when using Ozone=X11.

Additional Information:

• This issue is specific to Sway and does not occur in Gnome or i3wm.
• Snap applications cannot be opened with Wayland as they crash (this happens in all wm).

[rmasad]

By trying a lot I got the accents to work by opening the applications with WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 , for example: "WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 brave"

It works with everyone except Slack, which gives the following error: /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (es_ES.UTF-8)