same issue here on 12.04 ... very broken and reliability problems also. On one account (which has 'sudo' power) through NX Client, I must launch by hand the command : "ibus-daemon -xrd" (and after the session has loaded !?, this doesn't work in the startup application...) to get the input methods that I've configured to appears in the notification icon menu, otherwise, the icon is there, but no method are displayed in the menu...
On a simple user account through LTSP, this doesn't work, and I'm unable to type japanese: no input method appears in the menu of the icon found in the notification area. I've looked into various solution on the web without success (including all what is mentionned in this thread.) And it worked flawlessly in 12.10 (by chance ?) on my desktop computer. I would be happy to get the debian-sid packages mentionned by Andy Iverson (for 64bit) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007423 Title: ibus won't turn 'on' when in certain programs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1007423/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs