tilde key doesn't work as deadkey

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 04:52:54PM +0200, wettstae at gmail.com wrote:
> > after I upgraded Ubuntu from 13.10 to 14.04 I can't type letters with
> > a makron on top like for instance 'ā' with the 'AltGr' + 'Shift' + '+'
> > - shortcut which worked before.
> 
> There was a change in xkeyboard-config more than a year ago that made
> the tilde in the default German layout non-dead, as DIN demands.  Also,
> the dead macron became a normal macron.  If you want the old behaviour,
> use the "legacy" (called "veraltet" in German) variant of the layout.

fwiw, I'm really tempted to fix the translation here. Legacy and veraltet
are two different things. "ueberholt" would be a more appropriate term, IMO.

Cheers,
   Peter