ibus input method not working

[Yuan-Chen Cheng]

per test on jammy, config traditional Chinese and input method as ibus

Chinese input method not working.

Per check around, found that just force add "--xim" to /usr/bin/ibus-daemon,
then it works.

Note: per test, add --xim works for below cases:

1. x11 mode
2. Wayland mode, x11 client, test by using microsoft edge.
3. Wayland mode, Wayland client, tested by using gnome-terminal.

[Yao Wei (medicalwei)]

Could you give us steps to reproduce? It works for me after adding Others/Chewing in keyboard setup in the jammy VM.

[Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)]

Hmm, weird that I can't reproduce this issue now. I'll set this to in-complete temporary.
(I did an apt upgrade in-between)

Btw, I try to add nomodeset to booting parameter, and I found that I can't run in Wayland mode. It's only x11 mode (and the icon to select between wayland and x11 mode is not there)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I can't reproduce it either.

It can be noted that a (possible) issue on standard Ubuntu related to how ibus-daemon is started is not an issue with ibus but rather with gnome-shell.

Anyway, this is a bit odd:

$ env | grep -i type
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
$ ps ux | grep ibus-daemon
gunnar 2932 0.0 0.0 2888 956 ? Ss 06:04 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --panel disable $([[ $XDG_SESSION_TYPE == "x11" ]] && echo "--xim")
gunnar 2935 0.4 0.0 406192 14220 ? Sl 06:04 0:02 /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --panel disable
gunnar 5761 0.0 0.0 24844 2632 pts/0 S+ 06:14 0:00 grep --color=auto ibus-daemon

OTOH I can't tell the significance of '--xim' not being included in the second ibus-daemon process.

@Yuan-Chen Cheng: Well, if nobody — not even you — is able to reproduce the issue on an upgraded jammy, the bug shouldn't be set to "Incomplete" but rather be closed. So I closed it.

Please feel free to request it to be reopened or submit a new bug if the issue reappears.