So, eventually, this problem went away for me, but I can't exactly explain how. IIRC running /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-gtk-ui (or whatever it's called ... sorry, i don't have that computer with me right now) manually made it appear, and then it was magically there the next time I logged in.
So, eventually, this problem went away for me, but I can't exactly explain how. IIRC running /usr/lib/ ibus/ibus- gtk-ui (or whatever it's called ... sorry, i don't have that computer with me right now) manually made it appear, and then it was magically there the next time I logged in.