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Intelligent Input Bus, Ubuntu's default and officially supported input framework.

IBus stands for Intelligent Input Bus. It's called "Bus" because it uses multi-process architecture based on D-Bus. Many input engines have been written for or ported to IBus, making it an international platform.

English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese are all allowed in bug reports and user group questions.

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"ctrl+space" has been bound to invoke some input method and does not work in Emacs or Eclipse auto-complete

In Emacs run in terminal, ctrl+space is a standard shortcut key to select region. But under Ubuntu 12.04, it will invoke some input method for non-English language. I was wondering if I can reserve it for Emacs only? Under System Settings ->…
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phpStorm losing keyboard input

Every now and again phpStorm will lose input from my keyboard. I can still click around, but it will not register any keys. Other windows are fine. It takes a phpStorm restart to bring them back. It seems to happen most when I Control+Tab between…
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Make IBus-Mozc start in Hiragana rather than Direct input mode

Every time I restart my computer and want to type in Japanese, pressing Super+Space is not enough, I also have to select Hiragana in Mozc's menu: It gets me everytime. It is a bit like if your car's brake acted as an accelerator the first time you…
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How do I switch input modes in mozc without going to the IBus menu?

I have installed mozc (a Japanese input method editor (IME)) on Ubuntu 14.10. It is working fine. I am able to write in Japanese by going to the icon in the upper-right-hand corner of my screen (what do you call this?) and selecting Hiragana or…
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iBus doesn't seem to restart

After running in the terminal ibus exit, it successfully exited in the terminal. It was interfering with a program where it did not allow typing in that program. Or rather maybe the program was interfering with iBus. Regardless, now that the use of…
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How can I find out what ibus-daemon and ibus-ui-gtk3 are doing?

Occasionally my desktop slows down a lot. The mouse pointer moves slowly or not at all, my fan starts whirring, and the end is generally nigh. If I'm very patient normality usually restores itself, but this happens daily. Recently when it happened I…
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Gtk-WARNING : Calling Inhibit failed

I was trying to use gedit, when I came across the following problem: myPC@TM77:~$ sudo gedit /etc/pm/config.d/config (gedit:12512): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/myPC/.config/ibus/bus is not root! (gedit:12512): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit…
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How to properly update / install / compile ibus on 14.04, dconf problems?

I updated recently to phpstorm 9.5 and it says I should update ibus to 1.5.11 or newer (which at this point the current one). Ok. I downloaded 1.5.11 from source and try to install it. I got some dependencies solved, but at one point I have a…
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Why do I get IBUS-Warning on running the sudo gedit command?

Whenever I try to run a sudo gedit command as instructed in Step 4 of this answer, my terminal puts out: (gedit:7549): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/jared/.config/ibus/bus is not root! How do I get out of this situation?
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How can I get ctrl+shift+e to shortcut to work in vscode?

I am using Ubuntu 21.10. When I am in vscode and I press Ctrl+Shift+e, the mapping does not get dispatched to vscode, and instead it types an underlined 'e' characters. I have looked at lots of posts that indicate this is because of ibus, but I have…
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How can I make IBus not ignore ~/.XCompose?

Since UIM didn't want to play ball after installing Ubuntu 12.04 from scratch, I tried IBus, since that's the IME framework that's coming with Ubuntu by default. However, ibus-table-compose is a pain in the butt to use because just to enter one…
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Installing Avro in 18.04 LTS

How can I install Avro in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release? I have tried with this method but not working (previously worked in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). Edit: This question is not a duplicated version of this one. Seems like installing Avro in 18.04 LTS needs…
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Dead keys in emacs with ibus

I've just upgraded to 13.10 and noticed that dead keys are not working anymore in emacs (a keystroke to ' leads emacs to display is undefined instead of waiting to the next key. In addition, use of the compose key leads to …
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How do reactivate IBUS after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10

IBUS icon does not appear after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10. I can't even find the IBUS icon from the Dash. May I know how to reactivate the IBUS? Thanks.
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Japanese input on 16.04 with Fcitx and Mozc

Typing Japanese on Ubuntu used to mean ibus-mozc, but ibus-mozc has been less and less maintained since 2015: Ubuntu 15.10 is supposed to start using Fcitx rather than ibus as their default input method (input method framework), which is another…
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