Ibus conflict panel unclickable

[marcus]

I am currently using Mint 13. Cinnamon 1.8 was backported by enabling backports. It is possible that this issue exists in other linux mint versions as well.
When I restarted cinnamon after updating, the panel became unclickable. none of the applets were working.After deactivating all panels except menu and logging back in I saw that I could use the panel for a brief amount of time till ibus came on after which which the panel became unclickable. To make sure I then uninstalled ibus and voila, the problem of not being able to click on the panel went away. When I reinstalled ibus, the problem reappeared. THis problem is restricted to cinnamon 1.8. I did not have this issue in 1.6.

[Simon (simonjwiles)]

Same problem, still, in Mint 15, Cinnamon 1.8.8. Killing ibus-daemon restores click-access to the panels.

[Flying @way (flying-oe)]

Same problem. Ubuntu 12.04
Cinnamon 2.0.4-20131023040308-precise, IBus 1.4.1-3ubuntu1

Strange thing is that it works well (i.e., both Cinnamon and IBus work) upon first login, though IBus font size becomes miniature. But if I restart ibus-daemon or restart cinnamon, the symptom as described above will occur.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Does killing ibus-daemon restore functionality?

[marcus (computefaster)]

killing ibus-daemon does restore functionality. However something strange happened. I had installed indicator-cpufreq from synaptic and cpu frequency selector from applets in cinnamon. Once these two were installed, the problem with ibus went away. Now i am able to use ibus without any lost functionality