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When I press ctrl + shift + e something strange happens and I can't write nothing anymore for a few keystrokes.

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In the gif above I press ctrl + shift + e multiple times. You can see that the first letter is lower case and after upper case. Some strokes later everything is removed. After I try to remove the e with ctrl + z and the same thing happens.

This problem affects all apps that I tried (scratch, vscode, chrome, terminal etc).

I've looked in settings to see if is a shortcut for something, but didn't find id. I'm using juno beta release.

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  • I think it's a ubuntu problem. I'm using KDE neon now and it has the same problem :/
    – Luís Henrique Faria
    Dec 8, 2018 at 18:00

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I guess I found solution:

export GTK_IM_MODULE="gtk-im-context-simple"

and then run vscode (or another app) from the same shell. If that doesnt work try this: export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"

As for me second variant works well.

To save this for all application put line into /etc/environment, or per-user in ~/.gnomerc. (The export command doesn't go in those files, just a new line with GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" or GTK_IM_MODULE="gtk-im-context-simple".)

Original: https://superuser.com/a/1334194

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  • ` export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"` did the trick for me. Thanks!
    – Luís Henrique Faria
    Sep 27, 2018 at 19:55
  • update: that solved the vscode problem, but created another one. I can't use accents anymore (my language is portuguese and we use accents).
    – Luís Henrique Faria
    Sep 27, 2018 at 20:28

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