Dash and HUD do not accept keyboard input from ibus English input method

[Asa Zernik]

After installing ibus, the Dash's and HUD's search boxes does not respond to keyboard input. I can fix the issue either by switching ibus to the Anthy (Japanese) input method, in which case I can search in Japanese characters only, or by disabling ibus with im-config and restarting the X session. I cannot in the same session both type in Japanese and search the Dash in English, so this is a major problem.

Non-Unity applications have no noticeable problem accepting English input from ibus.

Using Saucy Salamander: Unity 7.1, ibus 1.5.3, and anthy 9100h.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I'm using German and Japanese - I can only type Japanese in Unity on Saucy, the same setup worked on Raring.

[Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)]

Confirmed...looking into this...

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:nux at revision None, scheduled for release in nux, milestone 4.0.3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nux - 4.0.2+13.10.20130920-0ubuntu1

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nux (4.0.2+13.10.20130920-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * Always use a dynamic char* when dealing with text events. We were
    using a static text, then allocating dtext causing ibus to get
    confused on what to use. (LP: #1219330)
  * Greek does not play nice with XmbLookupString and gives us a size 0
    for the event string size. So if we run into the status
    XLookupKeySym, look it up using XLookupString. This way pinyin will
    still work as it did before the greek fix went in last week. (LP:
    #1219432)
  * Gracefully handle ibus_bus_get_config returning NULL. (LP: #1047944)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * initialize all fields of the test results structure to avoid
    segfaults when Unity support is not available (lp: #1226737). (LP:
    #1226737)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 817
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:16:31 +0000

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

FYI works well for me including switching between IMs. Thanks a lot for fixing this.