Sorry, I just realized, I'm not talking about "language input", but "Kanji/Kana input switch".
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus-anthy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1897826 Title: Button for changing input type outside of textfield does not work Status in ibus-anthy package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Reproduce ========== 1) Open a File manager 2) Press the button for changing the input language ( on Japanese keyboards that's the `半角・全角・漢字` button below `ESC`. 3) Expected: Input language changes Actual: Input language does not change Workaround ========== - Click inside a random text field - Press the button for changing input language Why is this important? ====================== When navigating around the system, it's sometimes necessary to switch to English input without having a text field. Consider this example - Image you have an English file structure - Set the input language to Japanese - Open a file manager - Search for a folder/file by starting to type - You'll get gibberish because you're trying to write English with Japanese input. The file selection cursor might even jump to random position according to your input. - Press `Esc` to try again in English. - Press The language changing button - Start typing again. - You get gibberish again, because outside of the search field the language-changing button press was ignored. lsb_release -rd ================ Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 apt-cache policy ================ ibus-anthy: Installed: 1.5.11-1build1 Candidate: 1.5.11-1build1 Version table: *** 1.5.11-1build1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ibus-anthy 1.5.11-1build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Sep 30 09:58:41 2020 SourcePackage: ibus-anthy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-24 (67 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus-anthy/+bug/1897826/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp