Unable to enter symbols via keyboard layout shifting in Wayland

[rikedyp]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Version: 1.71.0
Commit: 784b017
Date: 2022-09-01T07:25:10.472Z
Electron: 19.0.12
Chromium: 102.0.5005.167
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.15-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.19.6-200.fc36.x86_64
Sandboxed: No

OS: Fedora Linux 35 (Workstation Edition)
GNOME: 42.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Gnome Tweaks
2. In Tweaks, go to Keyboard & Mouse and click Additional Layout Options
3. Under Switching to another layout select a shifting key (e.g. Right Alt (while pressed) - note this issue does not occur if a non-(while pressed) option is selected
4. In the normal Gnome Settings, under Keyboard add another Input Source - it is best to use one with a different script, such as Russian, so that the problem is more obvious
5. Open a program such as gnome-text-editor
6. Notice that typing normally produces Latin characters (if you are using a Latin layout such as English language ones), and the holding AltGr (Right Alt, or whatever was chosen in step 3) and typing produces other characters (Cyrillic if using Russian).
7. Open VSCode
8. Try step 6 and notice that alternate characters (Cyrillic) are not produced while AltGr is held

The closest-looking issue I've found is #127932 but setting "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" does not seem to help.

[rikedyp]

There is a workaround. The problem goes away with:

code --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

I would prefer if this was enabled by default.

Related issue: electron/electron#28436

[deepak1556]

We cannot flip the default backend to wayland until the runtime makes the relevant changes, refs #134612. I recommend using the CLI flag to use the wayland backend. Also you do not need the flag --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform. Instead use the following code --ozone-platform=wayland