I used Ubuntu Unity for years until somebody introduced me to xubuntu. I love xfce4, and have now installed xubuntu 24.04.
The one problem I have is that I can't get ibus to work properly. The panel indicator appears, and the short-cut works for switching between 2 languages (English and Hebrew). But although the indicator changes, the language typed is always English. I have tried adding other languages, but none of them work. I have 2 partitions for installing OSes, and I keep a separate partition for my /home folder. I tried installing Ubuntu 24.04 - the standard, Gnome version - on my other OS partition. I found that ibus works perfectly, and in fact it shows up with 5 different languages that I have used at various times in the past (English, Hebrew, German, French, Spanish). It obviously picked up these settings from a file in my /home folder which must have been created when I was using Ubuntu Unity, where I never had a problem with switching languages. I tried looking at all the installed packages with names containing 'ibus' on the 2 systems, but I couldn't find much difference. Gnome has ibus-table and three ibus-table-cangji packages, which I assume are for Chinese characters, whereas xubuntu has ibus-m17n which is missing in the Gnome version. I tried adding ibus-table, not expecting it to help, and it didn't! Can anyone suggest any possible reasons why changing keyboards isn't working in my xubuntu installation? David
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