language panel does not show up

[David Huggins-Daines]

Binary package hint: ibus

Hi, I decided to try to switch from SCIM to iBus in Karmic since it is supposed to be the wave of the future.

First, I tried to run:

im-switch -s ibus

But this did not work because I had a broken link in ~/.xinput.d/en_US

After removing this link, I was able to enable ibus. I logged out and back in and tried to use it.

It does appear to allow me to input Chinese characters, however, it refuses to show the language panel, which makes Pinyin input completely useless. Changing the setting in ibus-setup to "always" show it still doesn't cause it to appear.

If it makes any difference, I removed all of the hotkeys except Alt-Grave, since I don't have most of them and Ctrl-Space is kind of important for Emacs.

Is there any way that I can debug this? I'm mystified as to what program actually runs to show the panel in the first place.

Also, I don't have a notification icon for ibus (strangely enough I had one if I started it up when I had SCIM running...)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 7 15:17:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ibus-gtk 1.2.0.20090723-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: ibus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64

[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

Addendum: running /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-ui-gtk from the command line manually makes it all work.

Why doesn't this get started automatically?

[Robb Munson (r.munson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You have previously reported this bug under the number 425881 so I am marking this a a duplicate of said bug number.