Comment 16 for bug 335732

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Calabacin (raulgarciag) wrote : Re: Accented letters cannot be written on non-gnome apps

Sorry for the spam. I was so happy that I decided I could finally write in japanese and in spanish, so I added support for Japanese writing.

That accomplished two things:
-Now I have the Ibus icon near the clock
-Now I cannot use dead keys in non-gnome applications :-(

So these are the steps I took:
1) Run "/usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11 &" without killing current ibus. Still cannot write Á, it writes ´A
2) Restart the computer and run "ps axu | grep -i ibus". Now I see several processes:
- /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --xim
- /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-gconf
- python /usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py
- /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11 --kill-daemon
- python /usr/share/ibus-anthy/engine/main.py --ibus

3) Try all previous apps (kate, tcl, xterm, etc...). They all fail to write Á

So yes, the problem comes when you have a dead-key language, such as spanish or french, and a complex writing language, such as japanese or chinese.

I used to be able to overcome this using scim, and selecting spanish inside of it. Now I'm not even able to do that.

My guess is that if I try to add japanese to my kubuntu something will break as well. I can try and install a clean kubuntu if you want.