How do I type a backtick in RubyMine with a Swedish keyboard layout?

Question

I asked this on Ask Ubuntu a few days back, but it is getting no love, and is probably more of a JVM question than an Ubuntu-specific one anyway, so here goes:

I can type a backtick just fine in any application save RubyMine (and probably any stupid JVM app) either by pressing S-Backtick S-Backtick (i.e. pressing Backtick twice whilst holding down Shift), or by pressing S-Backtick Space.

Any clues what could be going on here? It almost certainly has to be Java, but I don't know anything about adjusting Java input settings or whatever.

Answer 1

In Ubuntu the backtick key is a modifier key for extended characters: backtick+e = è etc. Two backticks give a backtick by itself.

It is quite likely the Java application isn't interpreting the double-character keyboard input as a whole but taking each character separately.

You may find it necessary to create a custom keyboard map (or modify the Swedish one). I'm not sure how you'd go about that in Ubuntu.