Public bug reported: Note: Quite a few ibus crash bug reports have been marked as duplicates of this bug. If you find that such a bug was not actually addressed through the fix of this bug, please feel free to comment on the bug report and remove the duplicate link.
[Impact] GNOME desktops have built-in mechanisms for launching and configuring IBus. However, up to now im-config has overridden GNOME in this respect, resulting in a slightly different command for launching IBus and a few extra environment variables; most importantly GTK_IM_MODULE has been set to "ibus". This was recently changed via im-config 0.45-1 in groovy, where im- config does not do anything in case of IBus on a GNOME desktop. A positive side effect of the change is that the frequency of IBus crashes has been significantly reduced. No deep analysis has been carried out which explains *how* this change prevents IBus crashes. The basis for the conclusion is instead statistics from errors.ubuntu.com. Some relevant links can be found in this discourse topic: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ibus-no-more-gtk-im-module-ibus/17727 [Test case] We have not been able to reproduce the crashes, so a simple test which verifies the fix can't be accomplished. Instead we need to be attentive to possible regressions. * On an Ubuntu desktop, install ibus-libpinyin and ibus-hangul. * Log out and log in again (to an X session). * Enable Intelligent Pinyin and Hangul (from Settings -> Region & Language) * For each of Intelligent Pinyin, Hangul, and the on screen keyboard: - Confirm that inputting works without hassle - Do so on various apps: FF, TB, gedit, LO. [Regression risk] Even if we have done it differently in Ubuntu (and Debian), the GNOME mechanisms we now let replace im-config with respect to IBus is mature code which has been in use for quite some time on other distros. That speaks for a low regression risk. ** Affects: im-config (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released ** Affects: im-config (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: High Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) Status: New ** Also affects: im-config (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: im-config (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: im-config (Ubuntu Focal) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1893551 Title: Let im-config back off if IBus on GNOME desktops To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/im-config/+bug/1893551/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
