Re: Weird keyboard issues with Firefox in KDE6 Plasma Wayland

[Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>]

Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de> wrote:

Hi,

> I have a very weird issue I can't quite trace, and I have no idea where to 
> start looking. Maybe someone has a decent hint where to start debugging. It 
> looks like some keyboard handling issues in Wayland apps.

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> I tried to pinpoint issues and came up empty
>
> - it happens in both Debian-provided Firefox ESR (128.10.0esr-1) and the 
>   Firefox upstream binaries (138.0.1 right now, but has been for a while)
> - it happens with a fresh firefox profile
> - it does NOT happen if firefox is started with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0
> - it does NOT happen on a fresh user profile (new user)
> - I cannot see this on my work device (bookworm+kde5+wayland), although that's 
>   another user profile of course
>
> I can not figure out how Wayland (seems to be related to Wayland,
> because running Firefox without Wayland fixes all of these issues) could
> cause issues #1 and #2, so I have no idea where to start. Especially
> since it seems to depend on something in my user profile, but not the
> Firefox profile.

Update, removing ibus (which is a hard dependency of the closed source
zoom client, so that had to go) fixes the issue. 

Bernhard