Dead keys not working in normal mode

[fpiem]

Hello,

I'm running VSCodeNeovim in PopOS 21.04, and using the US International keyboard layout (with dead keys). I'm finding some strange behavior when typing dead keys in Normal mode. For instance, say I have the line below (| represents the cursor):

stri|ng =  'hello world'

Using dead keys, typing ' requires pressing the ' key on the keyboard and then space. If I press f' (but not space) the following line is displayed on screen:

stri´ng =  'hello world'

with the ´ character appearing where the cursor would be. If I then type space I get:

str'|ng =  'hello world'

so the cursor doesn't move, and the previos character is replaced by the key I was trying to type. The same issue occurs when typing any character bound to dead keys (", ^, `, etc), breaking many normal mode commands. I think this may have something to do with the dead key previews which appear on screen in Ubuntu/Pop when typing only the first half of a dead key combo, but I could not find a way to disable them.

For reference, in regular NeoVim in the terminal, I get the desired output of:

string =  |'hello world'

Also in regular NeoVim, if I type ^ (but not space) the following:

str^ng =  'hello world'

but if I then type space I go to the start of the line as expected.

I'm not too sure what's happening, I'm thinking VSCodeNeoVim is failing to "correct" the dead key preview when space is pressed? This is a total guess though. I've tried setting the Keyboard: Dispatch setting in VSCode to both code and keyCode to no effect.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Sudakatux]

Im having the same problem. is there any work arround

[fpiem]

Hey @Sudakatux, in the end I was able to get around this issue with the following command (requires IBus):

dbus-send --bus="`ibus address`" --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.IBus /org/freedesktop/IBus org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:org.freedesktop.IBus string:EmbedPreeditText variant:boolean:false > /dev/null

To be completely honest, I'm not quite sure what it does, but maybe it will for you as well?