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    ibus icon not showing up

    Hi all,

    After upgrading to Kubuntu 10.10 the icon for the ibus input method is not showing up anymore.

    I checked the ibus-daemon is running, but I have no idea how to use ibus without an icon.

    Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    Can you access Ibus Preferences?

    “System” > “Preferences” > “IBus Preferences” (Keyboard Input Methods).

    In Ibus preferences, there are options for:

    Show language Panel
    Show Icon on System Tray

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    Yes, I can access the IBus preferences:

    Show icon on system tray is marked
    Show language panel is set to always

    These settings, therefore, do not seem to be the source of the problem.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    Ibus switching icon normally resides in the "System Tray" which in turn is located on the "Panel".

    Is it possible your "System Tray" isn't on your Panel? If so, you should be able to add by right-clicking on the Panel..
    Last edited by kumaryu; October 22nd, 2010 at 03:08 PM.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    My system tray is in the panel showing other icons.

    The ibus icon is also not listed as an entry of the system tray.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    I've just tested this using a clean installation of Kubuntu 10.10. Ibus (1.3.7) was obtained by installing the Japanese input module (Anthy) from "Locale" (Country/Region & Language) settings.

    1. Immediately following the installation, Ibus icon was visible on the Panel but not in the System Tray. ie Its a Panel applet.

    2. Opening the "Keyboard Input Methods" (IBuse Preferences) controls has the effect of making the Ibus icon on the Panel disappear.

    3. Toggling the "Show icon in system tray" option does not restore the icon on the Panel.

    4. The "Show language panel -Always-" option also does not appear to have any effect on invoking the floating language bar on the Desktop.

    5. The only method found of restoring the IBus icon on the Panel was to restart the computer (Restarting the session had no effect) after every mode change on "Show icon in system tray" option. This means that following a loss of the icon on the invocation of IBus Prefs, two restarts are required to bring it back.

    I think this may be a bug with IBus (1.3.7) and Kubuntu (10.10). This document appears to indicate that some changes were afoot in Kubuntu 10.10 for IBus.
    https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KeyboardSet...t=KeyboardMenu

    I'm using IBus 1.3.7 (w/ Anthy) on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) with no issues. If you have no other dependencies, it may be an idea to use Ubuntu until they sort this out.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    I cannot switch to Ubuntu right know. Therefore I have to keep looking for a solution to the icon problem.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    I finally managed to solve the problem.

    I removed ibus-qt4 and installed ibus-gtk.

    Then I killed ibus-daemon and restarted ibus.

    Now I have the ibus icon back in the system tree!

    By the way, if ibus only works with some applications or always shows no input window you can try the following instructions using the kalternatives program:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...814/comments/5

    Stefan

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    I tried your solution (of replacing ibus-qt4 with ibus-gtk). On reboot, IBus displayed both the icon on the Panel as well as the floating language bar on the desktop.

    As soon as IBus Preferences were invoked however, they both disappeared. The only way to restore them was to reboot the computer.

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    Re: ibus icon not showing up

    Quote Originally Posted by kumaryu View Post
    I tried your solution (of replacing ibus-qt4 with ibus-gtk). On reboot, IBus displayed both the icon on the Panel as well as the floating language bar on the desktop.

    As soon as IBus Preferences were invoked however, they both disappeared. The only way to restore them was to reboot the computer.
    That did not happen in my case.

    The ibus icon not showing up is really an annoying issue, especially if you depend on non-English input.

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