To fix the accent problem with TexMaker in Ubuntu where the accents stop going over the character but are instead written before them, so you get 'a instead of á (Icelandic, Spanish etc.), install the ibus-qt4 package:
sudo apt-get install ibus-qt4
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To fix the accent problem with TexMaker in Ubuntu where the accents stop going over the character but are instead written before them, so you get 'a instead of á (Icelandic, Spanish etc.), install the ibus-qt4 package:
sudo apt-get install ibus-qt4