SUMMARY Can reproduce on both X11 and Wayland sessions of Arch Linux (Plasma 5.26 beta) and neon unstable. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open Kickoff 2. try to type any of the following accented characters in the search field: ã á â ü à 3. OBSERVED RESULT The character typed in the step 2 appears in the search field without the accent. If I trpe the same character again without closing Kickoff, it appears with accent, as expected. EXPECTED RESULT we are able to type the first character with accent SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Graphics Platform: Wayland
I suspect this is because the search field doesn't start with focus. Does the problem go away for you if you explicitly focus it by clicking in it, before typing?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Does the problem go away for you if you explicitly focus it by clicking in it, > before typing? Yes.
I can reproduce that. So the issue here is that typing those characters only works when a text field is actually focused, because they rely on modifier keys to generate. There's no problem for ASCII characters which can be forwarded straight to the text field, but this doesn't work with non-ASCII characters that need to be generated by the user.
This also happens with fcitx on Neon 20.04. First character I type is always english regardless of language setting of user.
*** Bug 393440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***