[SOLVED] I cannot write áéíóú in Konsole or Kate, but I can do it in VS Code and LibreOffice

diegoandresalvarez · 09-25-2019, 09:03 PM

Hello group,

I have a problem with the accents, with after an update of Linux Mint KDE 18.2 Sonia, I cannot write in Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and some other programs the Spanish accents in the vowels: áéíóúüÁÉÍÓÚÜ. However, that problem does not appear in LibreOffice, Visual Studio Code, Google Chrome or Spyder.

The problem only affects my session. When I start my linux using another user, the problem does not appear.

Any clue on what to do?

ondoho · 09-26-2019, 02:06 AM

How are you entering these letters?
Is this a keyboard layout problem?
How did you install LibreOffice, Visual Studio Code, Google Chrome or Spyder?
wWhat's the output of

Code:

locale
cat /etc/default/keyboard
setxkbmap -query

diegoandresalvarez · 09-26-2019, 07:17 AM

I do not think this is a problem related to the keyboard layout. It is a problem related to QT, since it affects only the native applications of KDE plus some others programmed with that library.

The problem only affects my session. When I start my Linux using another user, the problem does not appear. On both accounts, I do a locale and I get, the same information:

Code:

    daabank@eredron ~ $ locale
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=
    LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_NAME=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_ADDRESS=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_TELEPHONE=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_MEASUREMENT=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_IDENTIFICATION=es_CO.UTF-8
    LC_ALL=

Also, I performed a

Quote:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

without any success.

Some other commands:

Code:

daalvarez@eredron ~ $ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="latam"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

And:

Code:

daalvarez@eredron ~ $ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc101
layout:     latam
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
daalvarez@eredron ~ $

diegoandresalvarez · 09-26-2019, 07:50 AM

I solved it by writing:

Code:

export QT_IM_MODULE=xim

at the end of my ~/.profile and then rebooting my computer.