innercity wrote:Following through on some of the information and links from: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthrea ... post408155, I found a fix which works for me:

I didn't have an /etc/sddm.conf file, so I created one and added:

[General]
InputMethod=

Saved, rebooted, problem solved. (No idea if the section heading is needed.)

(KDE Plasma 5.8.8, KDE Frameworks 5.41.0, Qt Version 5.7.1, Kernel 4.10.0-42-generic.)