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

[Dean Chia 贾定]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 06:57:56PM -0400, Dean Chia 贾定 wrote:
> > 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.)
>
> Now on GNOME3, you should configure via:
>
> Settings -> Keyboard -> Imput Sources -> ...
>
> ibus-setup seems to be not in its best shape and it is offerd as the
> last resort tool for non GNOME people.  (I could remove it but I did
> not.)
>

Is there a particular keyboard source I should choose? I choose yes to
update, and now I have a list of
default, auto, cjkv, REMOVE, ibus, none, and xim. I chose ibus, and nothing
happened, even after Alt+F2 "r". I also tried leaving the option for ibus
chosen for my input sources, and I restarted. However, nothing happens
until I open a terminal and type "ibus engine." I don't even technically
have to specify m17n:zh:py. However, once I can type in Chinese, I cannot
turn ibus input method off (there is no icon in the panel where it used to
show up...Ctrl+Space doesn't work), and so I have to use the regular Gnome
keyboard input switiching (now Super+Space to switch between my regular,
system keyboards to go back to typing in English).

So I can type in Chinese (by command "ibus engine" in terminal). Ctrl+Space
doesn't work, and there is no ibus icon in the taskbar/top GNOME panel like
there used to be. I can also return to typing with my usual keyboard
layouts (by manually switching to a new keyboard layout via Super+Space
(default keyboard switch for GNOME) and switching back to my English
keyboard)


> > > Is the content of the /etc/X11/default-display-manager file to be
> > > /usr/sbin/gdm3
> > >
> >
> > Yes
>
> Hmmmm... Are you 100 % unstable or mixof testing/unstable.  I had
> problem with some testing versions.  I do not have problem now under
> sid.
>

I have 100% full-upgrade to sid. My /etc/apt/sources.list all point to sid
repo's.

>
> > >
> > > 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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