Let me state my problem as simple as I can:
I have a laptop (Thinkpad T480s) with a US keboard layout, and an external mechanical keyboard (Keychron K2) with the same layout.
I set my system language to English, but I set my formats to Spanish, because that’s what I use the most, even though I prefer my keyboard layout to be US.
Finally: the variant I use for my keyboard is US, intl. with dead keys, just so I can have Spanish accents like so: á é í ó ú and Spanish letter ñ.
My problem is that, at some point in a session, without doing anything special, and with my input sources still configured in the Gnome settings as English (US, intl. with dead keys), the input will be changed. I can no longer type Spanish accents (which would be ' key followed by the vowel letter I want to accentuate). It just ignores the first key press, and inserts the letter without the accent.
Since the keyboard layout is properly set in the Gnome settings, I don’t know what I can do… And then if I add a second layout, select it, and select back my desired one, most of the times it will work and I will have my accents back… But not always! And only for a while, because some minutes down the road, it will happen again.
I’m out of ideas. I have set my locales properly, I have done stuff like setxkbmap us -variant intl…
Has this happened to someone else? Can you help me?
Thanks in advance