iBus input method unusable in LXLE - LXLE OS Help and Support Threads on LXLE forums

Explorer09

My first post here.

I'm a Chinese Ubuntu user from Taiwan and when I test your LXLE distro, I found out it's difficult to configure iBus correctly so that I can type Chinese.

I know LXLE is meant to support English only, but I don't think it's intentional to leave a broken iBus in the distro.

Here are the things that work:

gnome-language-selector can install Chinese (Taiwan) language packs and ibus-chewing (input method) correctly.
Many applications can display Chinese interfaces correctly. The login screen is still English but I can get over it.

But here are the problems:

iBus use Ctrl+Space by default to enable/disable input methods. However in LXLE pressing Ctrl+Space pops up a Run dialog, and the input method is never enabled. (Although there is a workaround to re-map the iBus hotkey to Shift+Space, it is inconvenient to use.)
iBus status icon is never shown in the system tray.

So iBus is almost unusable in LXLE, but it comes installed by default. I suggest either remove it from the distro (if it's never intended to work) or fix the problems.

lxle

Those issues are inherited from Lubuntu/LXDE, in otherwords, they are not LXLE only problems but LXDE/Lubuntu issues as well.

Explorer09

I have tested Lubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 (on a VirtualBox machine) and both do not have the problems I described. Perhaps they have fixed them already.

I didn't try Lubuntu 12.04, though.

lxle

obkey would take care of your ctrl+space issue. Its in your menu's.

Explorer09

Ok, I get it. Still, I wish it could work out of the box.

Bapi_Linux

I am a "Bangla" speaking man from India. I had similar issues with ibus even after latest update. The solution is :
install the following two packages with synaptic......

1) iBus-Gtk

2) iBus-Gtk3 and re-start.

Now. you will see IBus keyboard icon on the system tray.

Enjoy!

Bapi_Linux

আপনাকেও ধন্যবাদ । ( "Thank You Too"--written in BANGLA )

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