ibus very difficult to restart
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ibus |
New
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Unknown
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ibus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After closing ibus by task bar -> icon -> rightclick -> `Close` it seems to be impossible to restart it.
Here some ways that should work and how they fail:
1) Menu -> ibus
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- opens iBus settings
- starts ibus service
Problems:
- No keyboard input is actually processed; I.e. cannot use keyboard then.
- Service is not daemonized; I.e. as soon as the iBus settings window is closed, the services quits.
Suggestion:
- No keyboard input possible seems to be a bug -> should be fixed.
- Service should be daemonized at this point
2) terminal -> `ibus start`
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Problems:
- This command does not exist. One has to know, that `ibus-daemon` is the one they are searching for.
Suggestions:
- Implement this command to start the daemon from here
3) terminal -> `ibus-daemon &` / `ibus-daemon -d`
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- brings up ibus with usable keyboard (good)
Problems:
- As soon as terminal gets closed, ibus-daemon quits
4) terminal -> `nohup ibus-daemon &`
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- brings up ibus with usable keyboard (good)
Problem:
- As soon as terminal gets closed, ibus-daemon quits (very strange. something I wouldn't expect from a `nohup` call, by the way).
System
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- I use ibus in conjunction with ibus-anthy
lsb_release -rd
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Description: Ubuntu 20.10
Release: 20.10
apt-cache policy ibus
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ibus:
Installed: 1.5.23-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.5.23-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.5.23-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
apt-cache policy ibus-anthy
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ibus-anthy:
Installed: 1.5.11-1build1
Candidate: 1.5.11-1build1
Version table:
*** 1.5.11-1build1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ibus 1.5.23-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Apr 1 15:33:00 2021
RebootRequiredPkgs:
linux-
linux-base
linux-
linux-base
SourcePackage: ibus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in ibus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
It's not clear to me why you would want to kill the ibus-daemon process in the first place. It's setup (via im-config) to be started and configured at login.
As regards commands to start ibus from terminal it differs depending on the desktop environment.
GNOME:
ibus-daemon --panel disable --xim -d
Other desktop environments:
ibus-daemon --xim -d
In situations where ibus crashes somehow, and IM inputting stops working, you normally can do:
ibus restart
to fix it.