Special characters?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2026-05-17 at 10:06 -0500, Keith via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On 5/17/26 7:22 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> > For the life of me I cannot work out how to enter special
> > characters in Ubuntu 26.04LTS, such as Umlaut-a
> I saw the same behavior, but I got it working.
> [...]
> I think the thing that got it working was after making the change to
> the compose key setting I simply logged out and logged back in. It's
> dumb, but it did start working afterwards.

I tried that and it worked. I suppose I would have logged out and back
in again at some point anyway and then special characters would have
mysteriously worked, but it's much better to know for sure that that
step is necessary.

Bizarre. That just shouldn't be necessary. 

Anyway, many thanks!

Regards, K.

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