Can't type symbols (`~'") after update

Desktop Environments Budgie
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Hi. I use a US international keyboard layout and Brazilian Portuguese locale. This allows me to type letters such as ã é í à, etc. When I need just the symbol, for example ~, I type the key followed by space.

After updating my system this doesn’t work anymore and it’s very annoying. To accentuate letters it still works, but now when I type space it does nothing. So it’s impossible to type an apostrophe, quotes or a tilde.

I thought the culprit might have been egl-x11 that went from version 1.0.3-1 to 1.0.4-1, but I tried rolling back and it still doesn’t work. I rolled back the kernel from 6.18.1.arch1-2 to 6.17.9.arch1-1 and I also tried GNOME desktop (which neither X11 nor Wayland versions provided a fix) and Xfce, which worked. So I’m a bit at a loss at what to do now. Here’s everything that was updated and their versions:

extra/audacity	1:3.7.7-1	1:3.7.6-1
extra/babl	0.1.118-1	0.1.116-1
extra/bind	9.20.17-1	9.20.16-1
extra/chromium	143.0.7499.146-1	143.0.7499.109-1
core/device-mapper	2.03.38-1	2.03.37-1
extra/egl-wayland	4:1.1.21-1	4:1.1.20-1
extra/egl-x11	1.0.4-1	1.0.3-1
extra/enchant	2.8.14-1	2.8.12-2
extra/ffmpegthumbnailer	2.3.0-1	2.2.4-1
extra/gegl	0.4.66-1	0.4.64-1
multilib/lib32-util-linux	2.41.3-1	2.41.2-1
extra/lib3mf	2.4.1-1	2.3.2-3
extra/libdecor	0.2.5-1	0.2.4-1
extra/libnotify	0.8.7-2	0.8.7-1
extra/libsigc++	2.12.1-2	2.12.1-1
extra/libsigc++-3.0	3.8.0-1	3.6.0-1
extra/liburing	2.13-1	2.12-1
extra/libxnvctrl	580.119.02-1	580.105.08-1
core/linux	6.18.1.arch1-2	6.17.9.arch1-1
core/linux-headers	6.18.1.arch1-2	6.17.9.arch1-1
core/linux-lts	6.12.62-1	6.12.61-1
core/linux-lts-headers	6.12.62-1	6.12.61-1
core/lvm2	2.03.38-1	2.03.37-1
extra/networkmanager-openvpn	1.12.4-1	1.12.3-1
extra/networkmanager-vpn-plugin-openvpn	1.12.4-1	1.12.3-1
extra/nvidia-open-dkms	580.119.02-1	580.105.08-5
extra/nvidia-settings	580.119.02-1	580.105.08-1
extra/nvidia-utils	580.119.02-1	580.105.08-5
extra/opus	1.6-1	1.5.2-1
extra/pv	1.10.3-1	1.10.2-1
extra/telegram-desktop	6.3.9-1	6.3.6-1
extra/unrar	1:7.2.3-1	1:7.2.2-1
core/util-linux	2.41.3-1	2.41.2-1
core/util-linux-libs	2.41.3-1	2.41.2-1
extra/webkit2gtk-4.1	2.50.4-1	2.50.3-1

Any help is appreciated.

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I don’t use Budgie, but recently had a similar issue with Gtk apps on KDE Plasma.

There IIRC the issue was that Gtk does not come come with an advanced input method yet, so (unless you use Gnome, which comes with iBus by default) you should install one — e.g. Fcitx5 or iBus.

It may be that you ran into the same issue.

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Thank you for the tip. I did already have ibus installed though. And now the Desktop is crashing randomly every once in a while, so it looks like it’s a more general problem somehow. I think I’ll just switch DEs in the end

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I’m at a loss then, sorry. I hope someone else can chime in and help.

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I did just a update, i have no issues at all. Did you change the layout prehaps ?

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No worries hook, thank you anyways.

And no layout change. Weird thing is that the problem happened in my laptop as well, so it’s replicable in my computers for some reason.

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