you said that you thought the problem was unique to Unity. It isn't. I've had the garbled iBus input with three machines running gnome-shell.
At first, I used Unity. Then this iBus problem became unbearable, and I started to look around for a solution. Then some people said it wasn't there in gnome-shell, so I moved over, and the thing seemed cured. But it wasn't, and started to reassert itself even in gnome-shell sessions.
seems to fix the problem. I say "seems" because this is such an elusive bug, and although my systems seem to be okay at the moment, I wouldn't be totally surprised if I had problems again.
Dear Kevin,
At
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ unity/+ bug/840823/ comments/ 40
you said that you thought the problem was unique to Unity. It isn't. I've had the garbled iBus input with three machines running gnome-shell.
At first, I used Unity. Then this iBus problem became unbearable, and I started to look around for a solution. Then some people said it wasn't there in gnome-shell, so I moved over, and the thing seemed cured. But it wasn't, and started to reassert itself even in gnome-shell sessions.
Finally, the patched iBus 1.4.0 mentioned here:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ unity/+ bug/840823/ comments/ 25
seems to fix the problem. I say "seems" because this is such an elusive bug, and although my systems seem to be okay at the moment, I wouldn't be totally surprised if I had problems again.
In my opinion, this is a bug in iBus, not Unity.
Best,
Dominik