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Message #33776
[Bug 1365752] Re: ubuntu-desktop depends on iBus, which is totally broken
** Also affects: unity-control-center (Baltix)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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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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