Hold a letter (e, a, c, o, n…) and pick its accented variant (é è ê ë, ç, ñ, ô…) from a popup, with its number, the arrows or the mouse; a quick tap types the letter as usual. Works on any keyboard layout, without a daemon or root, in applications that use the GNOME input method (Wayland: GTK, VTE terminals, Electron with its Wayland backend). A shortcut (Super+E by default) opens the same picker without holding. Preferences: press-and-hold on/off and duration, shortcut, character table, keyboard layouts.
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| Version | Status |
|---|---|
| 2.4 (9) | Active |
| 2.3 (8) | Active |
| 2.2 (7) | Rejected |
| 2.1 (6) | Active |
| 2.1 (5) | Rejected |
| 4 | Active |
| 3 | Active |
| 2 | Rejected |
| 1 | Rejected |
2.2 is a maintenance release after an independent code review of 2.1. Changes a reviewer may want to know about: the shortcut picker no longer uses the clipboard at all (it commits through the shell input method, and the clipboard declaration is gone from the description); the keybinding key is namespaced (accent-hold-shortcut, old value migrated once); the IBus prototype wrapper is only installed while press-and-hold is on and is restored only if it is still ours, so it coexists with other extensions patching the same method; both popups are clamped to the monitor; Space and Enter dismiss instead of inserting an accent; key repeat on the client side is handled by forwarding the release of the held letter when the popup opens. 54 unit tests run with plain gjs (extension/tests/run.sh in the repository). As before: I used AI assistance to write and review this code and can explain every line.
Accent Hold