[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#749298: ibus works erratically if at all in newest gnome (recent testing-full-upgrade-to-sid)

Dean Chia 贾定 peridox91 at gmail.com
Tue May 27 22:57:56 UTC 2014


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com>wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:55:25PM -0400, Dean Chia 贾定 wrote:
> > I have found a way to reproduce some bugginess. Whenever I restart X
> > (Alt+F2 "r"), I start typing in Chinese fine though I cannot "turn off"
> > Chinese input (I may or may not have to fiddle with input methods,
> though I
> > do not update my input method ...).
> > Then, in order to regain English-typing ability, I have to change my
> > default keyboard manually to something else (in this case, from Eng
> Dvorak
> > to Eng US) and back, and then I regain my main English typing ability.
> If I
> > want to type in Chinese again, I simply have to repeat and restart X
> again
> > with Alt+F2 "r".
>
> Do you use GNOME3/GDM3?  (This does not use ibus-setup but use javascript
> program to set parameters.)
>

Yes [yeah, I looked at the parameters in bash of ibus setup or ibus engine,
etc. (Anyhoo, I tried ibus-setup to get the preference window of ibus to
show up. I remembered this from my previous bug report.)

>
> Is the content of the /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to be
> /usr/sbin/gdm3
>

Yes

>
> If not, try and check situation with these, please.
>
> Also some ibus modules seems to set keyborard to en_US etc. without
> respecting the system default.
>

My problem is not w/ en_US vs Dvorak, so so far this issue does not affect
me, thankfully. I guess if I need to type in Chinese, my "shortcut" will be
Alt+F2 "r". Let me know if there are other testing things to do.

>
> Osamu
>
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