Ubuntu
ibus package

No UK keyboard support

Bug #1540587 reported by Mark Fortescue on 2016-02-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1835541: ibus only provides non-standard UK keyboard layouts. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ibus (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

UK keyboard is NOT available as an input method in uBuntu 14.04 LTS ibus (1.5.5-1ubuntu3) input method selection.

Please can someone fix this omission by adding the appropriate info to /usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml as having the system incorrectly default to a US keyboard is a real pain - you can't put anything in quotes or pipe output from one command into another. It makes a UK keyboard system unusable.

My simple solution is to add the 'gb' keyboard as follows:

  <engine>
   <name>xkb:gb::eng</name>
   <language>eng</language>
   <license>GPL</license>
   <layout>gb</layout>
   <longname>English (UK)</longname>
   <description>English (UK)</description>
                        <icon>ibus-keyboard</icon>
   <rank>99</rank>
  </engine>

A better solution would be to process files in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols and add ALL available xkb keyboards to simple.xml as a post installation operation. Doing this would help people see the advantages of ibus instead of fighting it to try and get a usable system.

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2019-05-23:

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

Changed in ibus (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2019-10-25:

Thanks for your report!

This issue is upstream in nature, and it would be great if you could submit an upstream issue:

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/

There is another bug about the same topic, so I marked this bug as a duplicate of the other one. Please submit possible follow-up comment on the other bug.