keys not repeating on fedora kde wayland, blame ibus

Fedora 44, KDE Plasma, Wayland session. Simple thing, holding a key down. 7777777777777777777 Except it wasn’t doing that anymore. Hold 7, get one 7, and instead of it repeating I’d get a little popup underneath the cursor with a handful of characters sitting in it. Looked exactly like one of those mobile long-press accent menus. Checked System Settings → Input Devices → Keyboard → Key repeat. All fine, delay and rate both set correctly. Tried the Test area right there in Settings, same thing happened, single character then that popup. Tried it in a terminal, tried it in the browser, tried it in an editor. Everywhere. Not one app misbehaving, the whole session. ...

July 20, 2026 · 2 min