Use the text composition interface

Feature: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps_Issues/issues/65

Bring squeekboard to parity with virtboard, by responding to hide events and by composing text strings instead of individual key presses.

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Partially implemented: text submitted as text. Deleting text was broken on the protocol level, and in addition in vte.

Progress: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/merge_requests/19

Still needs a solution in GTK, wlroots and input-method protocol.

Long finished.

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