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Hi, Aron. Thanks for looking into this bug for me.

I acknowledge what you're saying that it's someone else's fault, but
without more detail about what you actually think is going on, this may
be misinterpreted. I personally have no idea what is going on, and can't
contribute to resolving this through other projects' bugtrackers without
your contribution. What 'kind' of bug is in the applications, that means
an im-config change can workaround it?

Recently, keyboard input problems, including loss of responsiveness and
loss of individual key events, seem to apply to almost all of my
applications actually (even incredibly simple ones like Geany and
Terminal), so if all of these applications have the same problem, I
doubt whether it's an individual application developer at fault.

Regarding the Chrome bug, when you say "you have to get GTK2 IM Module
installed" that is not a package name, so I can't install it.

Are you implying  that the fault is in not having any IM Module
installed? (I have to read between the lines as your comment was very
terse) I already have both ibus and scim installed, (and ibus was
selected under Preferences>Language Support>Keyboard Input Method
System), so this is not the case on my system.

I also can't file an upstream bug to get anyone to package it (either
Chrome OR Chromium - where Ubuntu maintainers can control packaging). Do
you have one or more package names from Ubuntu repositories that your
suggestion might relate to.

For reference, those others experiencing a problem, I've found a
workaround right now (on Lubuntu) is to entirely disable international
input support, by going to Preferences>Language Support>Keyboard Input
Method System and selecting 'none', then restarting the system.

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Title:
  Default IM configuration causes hangs

Status in im-config package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Certain applications have associated input hangs, where no key input
  events can be sent which sometimes clear after some time, and in at
  least one case (Inkscape), this is eliminated by running from
  Start->Run as follows, hence overriding the declaration of
  GTK_IM_MODULE in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70im-config_launch , distributed
  in im-config...

  bash -c "unset GTK_IM_MODULE && inkscape"

  A permanent fix on my machine could be to modify the 70im-
  config_launch file, or declare an overriding export in some later .rc
  file. Anyone know where I should make this declaration if not
  modifying package-maintained files?

  An alternative solution could be to install scim-gtk-immodule and
  run...

  bash -c "export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim && inkscape"

  See also
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/1385009

  Similar behaviours are experienced with Kupfer - minutes of hang with
  apparently no input events being passed, followed by (sometimes)
  unfreezing.

  I'm running Lubuntu Utopic with LXDE and Compiz (minimal dependencies
  on GTK), so it's feasible that some component is not properly declared
  in a dependent package.  I can't find whether there is in fact a xim
  module available and running anywhere on my system. How can I check?

  Other input issues relating to out-of-order key event delivery to
  Chrome-based applications are experienced on the same build, but I
  think this may be an independent bug, ostensibly resolved by declaring
  IBUS_SYNC_MODE=1
  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456766 but thought
  I should mention as it's kind of in the same subsystem and may be
  linked.

  I speculate that there is some missing dependency or bad configuration
  in the default presentation of IM capabilities, which eventually
  causes a DBUS timeout or similar, eventually causing a fallback
  without any international input, but which is functional.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: im-config 0.26-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Feb 25 12:26:26 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-01 (54 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386 (20141022.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: im-config
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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