Unable to type passwords with the "Japanese (Anthy)" input method

I have also filed a report on this issue upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764649

Nikita, when you file upstream bugs please add them at the top of the page. Click the "The also affects Project" link and provide the bug url in there!

@Tim, Ok, right! Will do in future!

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

See also bug 1652618

A possible solution (confirmed working in 17.04 at least):

1. On 17.04 and earlier: System Settings > Language Support
2. On 17.10 and later: Settings > Region & Language > Manage Installed Languages
3. Configure your preferred language
4. Click "Apply System-Wide (Use the same language choices for startup and the login screen.)"

@Daniel: Please note that you can use any XKB layout on the login screen which is set by /etc/default/keyboard. So I think this bug report deals with the fact that you can't use input mehotds (e.g. IBus) on the login screen.

I'm trying to keep everyone on the same (web)page. See the duplicate bugs attached to this. If they really are a different issue then we can detach them, but I think/hope it's all related. I'm sure Nikita can confirm...

Nikita:

Is bug 1725676 the same issue or different from your perspective?

@Daniel, It looks the same to me.

It should be noted that I'm on Arch though so I may not be able to be so helpful with this bug report any more. However we do have Anthy here and the same issue. But I do remember experiencing on Ubuntu what the other bug you link is describing.

Nikita, can you please clarify what you mean by "input source"? Is that a physical keyboard or graphical input method?

Nevermind. I should have googled some more to confirm Gunnar is right. We should probably work to distinguish these bugs better if not combining them.

So, I've found this issue through a question on https://askubuntu.com/questions/1214208/input-language-switching-in-password-fields . It looks like I'm facing this bug and it makes GNOME basicly unusable for me.

The behaviour I've encountered is as follows:
* I have 2 input languages set: Korean (default one) and Russian. Korean language has English build in it, so I don't have add English to my system. Korean uses IBus for input (even in English mode).
* Hidden input fields across the system do not like IBus input languages. When I focus the hidden input (password field), the Korean is removed from the input language options, and I'm left only with Russian. And as my passwords are not in Russian, I cannot log in to anything. This includes password fields in browsers, WIFI connection dialog etc.
* If the password field has the "show password" button, I press it, and in this mode I can use Korean as normal.
* Even more frustraiting. I've added English input language just for passwords. Now when I set the focus on a password field, Korean is removed, so two languages are left: Russian and English. Since I don't usually use English, Russian is chosen. I press Ctrl+Space to change it to English. At this moment input language switching dialog is shown, which makes the focus leave the password field, Korean added to the list, and being chosen. Then the dialog disappears, password field is focused, Korean removed again and my active language is Russian again. It took me 5 minutes to log into Ubuntu One with GNOME (by typing my password in an open form in another field and copy-paste it).

Does anyone knows if there is any workaround for this?