ibus acts strangely in terminal

[David Huggins-Daines]

Binary package hint: ibus

ibus has some strange conflicts with gnome-terminal.

First, it is not possible to enable ibus using the Alt-Grave keystroke from the terminal. (it works in other applications though)

Next, when I first log in, if I open a terminal and switch to Pinyin input, I can't deactivate it for that terminal. The key combination doesn't work and neither does selecting "Input method off" from the ibus menu.

If I open another terminal, I sometimes have to select "Chinese - Pinyin" twice to turn on Pinyin method. At other times, I have to select "Input method off" twice to turn it off.

Method to reproduce:

 1) Open gnome-terminal
 2) Try to use ibus input methods

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ibus-gtk 1.3.7-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 27 20:24:43 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ibus

[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

Addendum - it seems like the problem with ibus hogging 100% of CPU is related to this as it doesn't happen in applications other than the terminal. Marking that bug as a duplicate

[Alex Beels (arbeels-ossf)]

I have my keyboard shortcut set to Alt+Release+Alt_R (i.e. hold down Alt_L and then hit Alt_R). In gnome-terminal, I have to hit Alt_R *twice* to turn iBus on or off. In all other programs, once is enough.

Alt-grave doesn't work for me either, even if I hit grave twice.

IBus responds immediately, however, if I *change* the input method (instead of turning it on or off), which is bound to Shift+Release+Shift_R. Could this bug be related specifically to using Alt as a shortcut? After some experimentation, Alt-grave doesn't work in gnome-terminal, but Ctrl-grave does. Super-grave doesn't work in any program.

I can't change the input method for gnome-terminal at all from the keyboard input menu. Note that the menu is running inside indicator-applet. I have noticed that the menu behaves differently if indicator-applet is not running. However, I haven't tested the menu with gnome-terminal without indicator-applet.

Running in en_US.utf8 on updated maverick upgraded from lucid.

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Should be fixed in newer releases.