🐧 GTK has changed how dead keys work, i didn't like it so I've used the power of Free Software and changed it to my liking :)

When you want to type á in a Spanish dead-keys layout (the default) what you do is pres two keys, first you press the key for ´ and then a and you get á. That's known as "dead keys" (don't ask me why)

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This is how it has worked for decades across all toolkits and all OS I've used.

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GTK 3.24.26 has changed that so that when you press ´ it already appears (with an underline to I guess indicate it's not final) and then when you press the a key it changes to á.

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It seems cool in theory but when writing lots of accented words it became annoying really fast (for me) since suddenly you have things appearing and disappearing and changing all over.

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I have not found a way to configure it, so I've patched it out. I'm sharing the patch https://ghostbin.com/paste/SDJTc in case you're in my same situation (use under your own risk of breaking everything)

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Free Software for the win :)