[Lazarus] IBUS warning

[JuuS]

On 03/28/2015 01:00 PM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Il 28/03/2015 10:29, JuuS ha scritto:
>> Thanks Giuliano, I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 with, AFAIK, the default desktop.
>> I don't have that choice in my settings. On my system ibus is very well
>> hidden (i've looked in all the most likely places) which is why it is so
>> frustrating. I'll pull through  ;-)
> 
> Kubuntu stands for K(de)Ubuntu, meaning that your desktop is KDE.
> 
> It would appear that the iBus on Ubuntu 14.04 is rather broken:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1284635
> 
> Possible solutions:
> 
>     1) In Ubuntu 14.04 you should have a System settings->language
>     support->Keyboard input method which you should set to =none.
> 
> 
>     2) You should have an icon in your system tray showing the Ibus:
> 
> 
>     But as they followed the idiotic Micro$oft way, it may be hidden,
>     and accessible via the almost invisible up arrow, showing the hidden
>     items.
> 
>     If not, you can set up Ibus to show the icon by invoking
>     "ibus-setup" from command line, and checking the "Show on system
>     tray" (or something like that) checkbox.
> 
>     Once you have the icon, you may right click on it and select "exit".
> 
>     Or take the brute-force approach and from command line "killall
>     ibus-daemon"
> 
>     In both cases, you'll get rid of ibus just for the current session.

Yes, that's how I'm dealing with it now. If I forget to "ibus exit" I
find out as soon as I try typing in almost any edit field. And yes,
removal is for session only.

> 
> 
> Once you see that deactivating doesn't remove any function you need, to
> deactivate it permanently.
> Again two solutions:
> 
> 
>     1) you might attempt to find out which start-up script launches it,
>     and edit it.
> 
>     2) take the brute-force approach:
> 
>     sudo apt-get remove ibus

You are right. I need to get off the horse and get rid of ibus. Exiting
ibus each day has no adverse effects...only good ones! So I think brute
force is ok. I saw that the other person who had problems did apt-get
remove and he didn't report any adverse effects.

The insidiousness of this is far reaching IMO. When I first encountered
the problem (I was investigating gnuCash software) I thought wow...this
gnuCash is terrible. Before giving up on it I did some INet research and
found the "ibus" effect.

How many people are out there with this problem and not aware of the
true cause?? This impacts all programmers when their programs are
perceived to be faulty by unsuspecting ibus victims.

Thanks for all the feedback Giuliano.



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