What version you are using?
mine are worked fine

$ vim -version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Aug 22 2017 12:33:17)


Plus, I found some people posted[1] about $q appearance on vim first line when loaded a few days ago.
If you don't mind, what is your "$ env | grep TERM" output ?

[1] https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/2008


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Frédéric Bron <frederic.bron@m4x.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I open vim in konsole, it shows $q q at startup. If I insert
> text, $q q is replaced by the text I typed.
> gvim has no issue.
> vim in terminator is fine.
>
> Frédéric
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Best Regards,
RN