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[Georg Jung <1240198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

same here (Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity or GNOME Shell). The whole ibus system is broken and the "fix" (e.g. #23) basically just switches it off. Here are the problems in detail:
ibus does not react, it does not seem to govern the keyboard layout anymore (xkb vs ibus issue?). Some GUI features might make it look like it's working (OSD under Gnome, indicator under Unity), but the effect is not there. Additionally (and possibly unrelated, but occurring wiht the same update), some key combos (namely opening a terminal with alt-ctrl-T) have no longer effect (neither on Gnome nor Unity). The "fix" just sets the fallback to what you might like to work with, but there is no switching layouts (and/or input methods) anymore.
For me the problem became apparent with the update to kernel version 3.13.0-34-generic. No fix so far solves the underlying problem of ibus being broken. This problem concerns the essential keyboard input and should have maximum priority! This goes for this thread as well as the discussed duplicate bug #1246272. It baffles me how a broken keyboard input system can be tagged with low priority.
I have updated GNOME to the gnome team version, changed the user id to 1001, tried all kinds of fixes, ibus remains unresponsive. I will now stick with the fallback solution from bug #1246272 without the option to switch layouts (no more Japanese input), until I have time to migrate to Debian. With ibus broken like this we are back to antedeluvian times where Linux could only be used with a US keyboard.

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Title:
  Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop

Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I upgraded from raring to saucy.

  After booting into the desktop (unity), the english keyboard layout is
  active, although everything on the system is set to be german
  (keyboard layout, language...)

  Switching to a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+f1) fixes the problem and
  changes the layout to the german layout.

  all the time, the new input settings indicator says the german layout
  is active.

  locale says: 
  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=de_DE
  LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=

  /etc/default/keyboard says:
  # Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for
  # documentation on what to do after having modified this file.

  # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
  # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
  # in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBLAYOUT="de"
  XKBVARIANT=""
  XKBOPTIONS=""

  # If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
  # specify an alternative keymap.  Make sure it will be accessible
  # before /usr is mounted.
  # KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+13.10.20131010.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 15 20:49:03 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (171 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: indicator-keyboard
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-13 (2 days ago)

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