[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#620042: Bug#620042: ibus fails

Asias He asias.hejun at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 12:12:42 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Michal Suchanek
<michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Excerpts from Asias He's message of Mon Apr 04 16:56:11 +0200 2011:
>> On 04/04/2011 09:57 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> > Excerpts from Asias He's message of Mon Apr 04 14:37:24 +0200 2011:
>> >> On 03/29/2011 08:16 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> >>> Package: ibus
>> >>> Version: 1.3.7-1
>> >>> Severity: normal
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> According to docs ibus can be started either by
>> >>>
>> >>> 1) im-switch -s ibus
>> >>>
>> >>> which does not work because ibus does not register itself with im-switch
>> >>>
>> >>> 2) ibus-daemon -xd
>> >>>
>> >>> which does nothing.
>> >>>
>> >>> According to ibus-setup the toggle key is Ctrl-space which does nothing
>> >>> and the tray icon only shows "No input window" in its menu.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hi, Michal
>> >>
>> >> Does im-config works for you?
>> >>
>> >> $ im-config
>> >> or
>> >> System -> Preferences -> Input Method
>> >>
>> >
>> > I tried to run im-config as root and it does not offer ibus as one of
>> > the options.
>>
>> You should run im-config with your login user id. There is no need to
>> run as root.
>>
>
> Actually, it is im-switch what I tried to run, as described in the man
> page. I have no im-config.

You can install im-config with:

      $ sudo apt-get install im-config


>
> Still the man page is misleading as best because im-switch does not work
> when runnig as root, only as user, and ibus-daemon -xd does nothing.

You do not need to run ibus-daemon manually. The ibus daemon will be started
automatically after you config ibus with im-config. I will update the
man page in
the next upload of ibus.

-- 
Best Regards
Asias He





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