Compose key does not seem to work properly on ghostty

[emogenet]

Discussed in #5056

^{Originally posted by emogenet January 14, 2025}

I am trying to use the compose key to enter exotic chars (things like € à ê ¥ etc ...)

My compose key is mapped to the right-alt key on my keyboard

For all other terminal emulators (xterm, gnome terminal, wezterm, etc...), as well as text field input in things like firefox, the compose key works fine.

However, in ghostty, once you enter compose mode, you can never leave.

Here's a video of the problem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2w0uiuWfA

The only way is to kill the ghostty window.

I am running this ghostty v1.0.1 on ubuntu 24.04.1

$ ghostty --version
Ghostty 1.0.1

Version

• version: 1.0.1
• channel: stable
  Build Config
• Zig version: 0.13.0
• build mode : builtin.OptimizeMode.ReleaseFast
• app runtime: apprt.Runtime.gtk
• font engine: font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
• renderer : renderer.OpenGL
• libxev : main.Backend.io_uring
• GTK version:
  build : 4.14.2
  runtime : 4.14.2
• libadwaita : enabled
  build : 1.5.0
  runtime : 1.5.0
• libX11 : enabled

[starquake]

Happens to me too. I also run an updated Ubuntu 24.04.1 on my work laptop. I'll check tonight if the same happens on Arch.

Ghostty 1.0.1

Version
  - version: 1.0.1
  - channel: stable
Build Config
  - Zig version: 0.13.0
  - build mode : builtin.OptimizeMode.ReleaseFast
  - app runtime: apprt.Runtime.gtk
  - font engine: font.main.Backend.fontconfig_freetype
  - renderer   : renderer.OpenGL
  - libxev     : main.Backend.io_uring
  - GTK version:
    build      : 4.14.2
    runtime    : 4.14.2
  - libadwaita : enabled
    build      : 1.5.0
    runtime    : 1.5.0
  - libX11     : enabled

[mitchellh]

Only maintainers make issues. There are other discussions about this and I plan on accepting them soon.