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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  ubuntu-desktop depends on iBus, which is totally broken

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Baltix:
  New

Bug description:
  Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 the package iBus has been
  installed in the system and activated by default. This has caused an
  amount of pain because it has completely broken the input method
  (symptoms: no en-uk keyboard available composite not working, backtick
  to be pressed twice). The problems are reported in a number of places;
  I've read somewhere I can't remember that Unity has some form of
  workaround against ibus but I don't use Unity (using Awesome on some
  systems, lubuntu on another one) and other windows managers are
  affected.

  Even disabling ibus (which has to be done via gnome-language-selector,
  instead of the keyboard panel in gnome-control-center, which is an
  usability problem that deserves its own bug report) the ibus processes
  keep on running. Probably this has no consequence but still there is
  no reason to have unwanted running processes. I have no idea where do
  these processes start, but I clearly have the idea that they shouldn't
  be running where not necessary.

  Uninstalling ibus is not straightforward because the ubuntu-desktop
  package depends on it. The dependency the core package ubuntu-desktop
  on ibus is excessive for a package that is 1) unneeded by many users
  and 2) broken for many users.

  The best solution to date is to:

      ibus exit
      sudo mv /usr/lib/ibus{,.bak}
      sudo mv /usr/bin/ibus{,.bak}

  Please remove the dependency of ubuntu-desktop on ibus and avoid
  installing it for european languages.

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