Tilde (ã) and accents acute, grave (é,à) how to recover

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Hi, @Joao_Jose_Ribeiro_Ro (João José Ribeiro Rodrigues)

You wrote:

@Joao_Jose_Ribeiro_Ro

My laptop with a German keyboard no longer accentuates the accents tilde (ã) and acute,grave (é à).

I have it marked in the keyboard preferences;
German (tilde dead) and Portuguese.
When I type to test, everything works fine in both German and Portuguese, in the Glate translator it also works well, in Firefox, Google-mail and Libreoffice writer I can't do the accentuation.

I'm Portuguese but I have a regular (European) 105-key Portuguese keyboard so I don't have the problem you're facing. Having said that, I've found the following somewhat related discussion here in the "Ubuntu MATE Community", that was started on March 2021 by @nicolaigideon (Nicolai Gideon):

Ć instead of ç on 20.04

Before I updated to 20.04 I seem to remember that typing '+c (accentuation plus the letter c) resultet in the letter ć. Now, however, I get the letter ç. I have been looking for explanations online, but I am not able to find any good reason for the change. Does anyone know how to get the ć back? Kind Regards Nicolai

On that discussion, after several replies by several users, @Geus wrote the following answer, asking @nicolaigideon to make sure that the "Keyboard input method system" in the "Language Support" is set to "IBus":

Ć instead of ç on 20.04

Hi Nicolai, Are you actually running Ibus? Are you using a minimal install of Mate or the full install? Could you please check menu->language support, if you get a prompt about installing additional packages you can do so. After that check your keyboard input method system: [image]

Here's the screenshot that @Geus included in that reply:

So, @Joao_Jose_Ribeiro_Ro , I suggest that you check, in your "Ubuntu MATE 22.04", if the "Keyboard input method system" in "Language Support" is also set to "IBus" and, if it isn't, then try to change it to "IBus". I've checked my configuration, in "Ubuntu MATE 22.04" (Jammy Jellyfish) and it's also set to "IBus". To do that:

1 - Click on the Ubuntu MATE Menu, hover your mouse over the "Preferences" menu to show its options, and then click on the "Language Support" icon in the right column), as I show in the following screenshot (you may have to scroll down a bit in the scrollbar on that right column to get to "Language Support"):

2 - That should have opened the "Language Support" window. In that window, please check that the "Keyboard input method system: dropdown list is set to "IBus. Here's the screenshot with the tooltip that appears when you hover your mouse over the value of that dropdown list.

If that "Keyboard input method system: option is not set to "IBus", then try to change it to "IBus" (unless you have a particular reason to choose another keyboard input method) and then click on the "x Close" button in the lower right corner of that window.

After doing this, I don't know if you need to reboot (or at least to log out and log in again) to apply the changes, so I suggest that you reboot, just in case.

I hope this helps. Please, report again later to tell us if doing that has solved (or not) your issue with accented characters