[Bug 1551283] Re: "Region & Language" settings should allow you to set keyboard input method system

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-03-06 11:08, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Hi, I've tested the packages from the PPA under Xenial's
> gnome-flashback, and now I got ibus running by default. And it again
> breaks keyboard layout switching with the default Win+Space, so I
> can't type in Greek (LP: #1481025).

Thanks for testing! Bad news, apparently. :(

May I ask: Which display language are you using? If it's something else
but Greek, can you please switch to Greek, log out, log in again, and
then try to type in Greek (with IBus running). Does that make a
difference?

Also, just to make sure: Is your Xenial updated with the latest package
versions?

> Why can't im-config default to ibus in locales that need it, and to
> None in locales that don't need it, as it did in previous Ubuntu
> releases?

Well, it started with bug #1550325, where it was reported that some
applications need IBus to work. Maybe that's true for other flavors but
MATE. Then there is the inconsistency in Ubuntu GNOME, which led to the
confusion resulting in this bug report.

> Apart from the serious problems that it's causing, it's also wasting
> a lot of MB RAM per user,

Nah, I don't think IBus requires a lot of memory. Please note that IBus
is running in Unity and Ubuntu GNOME, whatever the settings are. (Only
some environment variables differ.) I don't know about Gnome Flashback
in this respect.

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Title:
  "Region & Language" settings should allow you to set keyboard input
  method system

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in im-config package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In the gnome-language-selector one is able to set the "Keyboard input
  method system". For instance on my system I can either set it to
  "none", "IBus", or "fcitx". However there is no such option in the
  gnome-control-center's Region & Language section, though I think that
  there should be.

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