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I don't know when this problem began, may be 1 or 2 months ago.

When I press "C-;", Emacs shows a popup with letter "e".

a popup with 'e' appears in Emacs window

But this key binding is for "avy-goto-char-timer".

M-x

Even I run Emacs with emacs --no-init-file, this key binding still shows this popup.

I've searched but found nothing.

Emacs Version: GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-01-25, modified by Debian OS: Ubuntu 22.04

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    My wild guess is that you're triggering the compose key in your desktop environment (GNOME).
    – aadcg
    Commented May 20, 2022 at 9:32

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You’re using Gnome, and you’ve activated an IME. Emacs never registered your keypress, but it will accept any text supplied to it by the IME. You should examine the Gnome keyboard or keybindings settings to find out which keys are affected, and how to control them. Alternatively you could uninstall the ibus package using apt, but I don’t recommend that. IMEs can be very useful in many circumstances, and not just for Asian scripts.

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