low responsiveness when typing

[davi vidal]

I've been using PgAdmin3 for the past year and a half on a Ubuntu 12.04 setup, upgraded to 14.10 and it was working just fine. But I had a non-related issue and had to do a fresh install and I choose Ubuntu 14.10.

The problem is that I have to type very slowly to get the query I want. E.g. if I type "select * from users;" too fast, I get something like "slct* ro srs;". (Each time it's different, of course.) This is very annoying and I'm really stuck with that. Searching on the Internet didn't reveal anything, it is affecting both Gnome 3 and Unity. The only application affected is pgAdmin.

I suspect that it has something to do with wxWidgets, but I don't know how to debug it properly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: pgadmin3 1.18.1-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Dec 5 13:05:09 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-28 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: pgadmin3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[davi vidal (davividal-s)]

I just installed poedit (another wxWidgets application) and I faced issues like tab key not switching between fields and backspace/delete keys doesn't working.

Maybe it is a wxWidgets bug? Any way to validate this?

[davi vidal (davividal-s)]

And it looks like it has something to do with wxWidgets: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwidgets.devel/160621

What can I do?

[Triqui (triqui)]

I fixed it disabling IBus. Go to Language Support and change 'Keyboard input system' from 'IBus' to 'None'. Not only I don't experience missing keystrokes anymore, I feel pgAdmin is more responsive globally.

[Andrej Urvantsev (urvancevav)]

I can confirm that disabling IBus works for me as well.

[davi vidal (davividal-s)]

Disabling IBus worked for me.

[Roger (vonbloom)]

Disable IBus worked, but then I can't write accented chars in chromium browser

[davi vidal (davividal-s)]

I can still write accented chars in google Chrome, but I'm unable to do so in Sublime Text.

[davi vidal (davividal-s)]

Suddenly it looks like simply disabling IBus is not enough anymore.

[Ben (odonneb)]

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10, postgresql 9.4.1 and pgadmin 1.18.1. I tried disabling IBus but it made no difference. I still have the unresponsive text entry problem. No other app that I'm using was having the problem before or after disabling IBus.

[Ben (odonneb)]

I have to modify my previous comment: After rebooting my system and logging back in, the disabling IBUS workaround appears to work.

[Collin Stocks (collinstocks)]

Disabling IBUS worked for me. Luckily, I only speak english and hardly ever have to use accents....

[Michiel Van den Berghe (michiel-vdb)]

Launching pgadmin with the GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable set to anything but "ibus" ("GTK_IM_MODULE=foo pgadmin3" from the command line) seems to inexplicably fix it on my system without system-wide modifications like globally disabling IBus. I found it out after hints from http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16840#comment:7.