I simply always have ` in one of my clipboards, and paste it. Using ctrl-shift-v to paste it is still easier than bashing that dead key. Still, on system start

I simply always have ` in one of my clipboards, and paste it. Using ctrl-shift-v to paste it is still easier than bashing that dead key. Still, on system start it’s not there, and I need to get it into that first, and that’s needlessly complicated. So I avoid anything that relies on it.