I cannot type áéíóú in Linux Konsole or Kate, but I can do it in VS Code or Google Chrome

Question

After an update of Linux Mint KDE 18.2 Sonia, I am having problems with the accented characters.

I cannot write Spanish accents with vowels: áéíóúüÁÉÍÓÚÜin Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and some other programs.

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. On both accounts, I do a localeand I get, the same information:

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=
daabank@eredron ~ $ 

Also, I performed a sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales without any success.

Some other information is:

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

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

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

BACKSPACE="guess"

And:

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

Any clue on what to do?

Answer 1

I solved it by writing:

 export QT_IM_MODULE=xim

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