Comment 11 for bug 287719

I see that this bug is marked low priority, because of the scim-immodule workaround. Please note that the workaround appears not to apply easily to Ubuntu 12.04 (the LTS release as of this writing). Ubuntu 12 installs Gtk 3, but it has no scim-gtk3-immodule package. It has a package for gtk2.

Other net searches do not reveal any other workaround. So I believe this issue warrants more attention -- it can't be considered "work-around-able" if the workaround fails in current LTS!

More info - Here's what I did:

im-switch -c
--> and choose immodule from the menu

Log out, log in again, no change in behavior.

.xinput.d/en_US contains:

gtkimm_exists () {
 # check if any immodules installed
 for dir in /usr/lib*/gtk-2.0/2.*/immodules; do
  if [ -r ${dir}/im-$1.so ]; then
   return 0
  fi
 done
 return 1
 }

There is no /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 on my system. I have gtk-3.0 and inside, there is no subfolder at any level called "immodules."