chewing keyboard type changes to default after a while(2 minutes when i tested) even though setting still shows eten. changing to other keyboard type has no effect. restarting ibus bring it back to the saved setting.

[guardian626]

Binary package hint: ibus

I'm running 64bit 9.10 upgraded from 64bit 9.04. All SCIM packages have been removed.

I have my keyboard type set to eten for chewing chinese input. When IBus starts up, it works fine. After 2 minutes the keyboard type changes to default. The setting still shows eten but it is using default keyboard layout. Changing the keyboard type setting does nothing. Resetting IBus by right clicking the applet icon and selecting restart restores the setting to saved eten keyboard layout. After 2 minutes, the keyboard layout goes back to default.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 4 20:23:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ibus 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ibus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Simon (simonjwiles)]

I have what I think must be basically the same problem. My keyboard type switches from hanyu pinyin back to the default from time to time. It seems to happen when the window I'm typing in loses focus, and then I return to it. I can restore the correct keyboard by cycling all the way through the list of input methods (I have six installed at present). When I return to chewing the keyboard is correct.

[Alex Chu (yunghua-chu)]

I have the same problem as guardian626. Fedora 11 gives the same result. I remember I switched to SCIM and it works well on F11, might be the same for Ubuntu 9.10. Both of my installations is 64 bits.

[Simon (simonjwiles)]

Yeah, this has got too frustrating, I've removed ibus and gone back to SCIM.

[guardian626 (guardian626)]

Any updates to this bug? It's affecting both my x86_64 desktop and i386 laptop on Ubuntu 9.10. Desktop is an upgrade from 9.04 and laptop is a fresh install.

[Tom Chan (yukhei-chan)]

According to http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=611#c6, this is resolved in ibus-chewing-20091211, which is available in Lucid (10.4). I can confirm that after installing ibus-chewing_1.2.0.20091211-1_i386.deb, libchewing3_0.3.2-2_i386.deb and libichewing3-data_0.3.2-2_i386.deb from Lucid the issue is resolved on a 32 bit Karmic installation.