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Intelligent Input Bus, Ubuntu's default and officially supported input framework.

IBus stands for Intelligent Input Bus. It's called "Bus" because it uses multi-process architecture based on D-Bus. Many input engines have been written for or ported to IBus, making it an international platform.

English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese are all allowed in bug reports and user group questions.

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iBus doesn't seem to restart

After running in the terminal ibus exit, it successfully exited in the terminal. It was interfering with a program where it did not allow typing in that program. Or rather maybe the program was interfering with iBus. Regardless, now that the use of…
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Cannot get IBus to Work in 14.04

I'm unable to get IBus working in 14.04. The system tray never shows the keyboard icon or the IBus icon, even though "Show icon on system tray" is checked in the IBus preferences dialog. I can hit Ctrl-Space as often as i want, nothing happens. I…
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Vietnamese input method

After re-installing Ubuntu 13.10, the Vietnamese input settings in iBus changed. Before this it used the telex input method (same as Android and iOS defaults). Now it has a very strange keyboard with the diacritic accents replacing the number row. I…
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iBus-Unikey, I cant transfor between English and Vietnamese on Ubuntu 14.04

I have a trouble with iBus-unikey, I installed it for ubuntu 12.04 and it worked correctly. I can transform between English and Vietnamese. But when I upgrade my OS up ubuntu 14.04 I cant transform between English and Vietnamese. It always in…
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IBus input methods work only in system search

I have just upgraded Ubuntu from 19.10 to 20.04, and suddenly find that I can type Chinese characters with IBus only in the system search (the search bar that appears after pressing the Super key) and Telegram, not in applications such as gedit,…
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How to use different shortcut to switch among 3 input modes

When I was using windows it is convenient to switch among 3 input modes, say English, Chinese, Japanese, you can use ctrl + space to switch between English and Chinese, you can use alt + shift to switch between English and Japanese or even between…
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How can I run a non-interactive ibus-setup or fix this misconfiguration in ubuntu 16.04?

Based on this answer I learned that somehow Ubuntu 16.04, after upgrading from 15.10, made accents stop working in all my applications, and that by running ibus-setup and accepting the dialogs would make the accents work again. However I must run…
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iBus on busy system

When the system is quite busy I see that iBus switches layout with noticeable delay. I switch the layout, begin typing (in GEdit, for instance) and I have the beginning of the word in previous locale and the ending in newly switched locale. Maybe…
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Why my ibus input can't type 'que' or 'qve' in Chinese?

I'm using Ubuntu14.04 combining with wmii. But I can't type 'que' or 'qve' to get Chinese character '缺'. What to do ?
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iBus preferences is not shown in Ubuntu 13.10

iBus Preferences is not shown in Ubuntu 13.10, I already configured iBus to add new keyboard but it is not showing. ibus-setup command and it only shows next input method, there is not enable and disable option, how to fix this :)
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iBus not working on Ubuntu 13.04

I have done all the steps to write in Hangul (Korean). But I have had no luck. I have used Ubuntu for 2 years now and iBus has worked on other versions of Ubuntu. Just not 13.04. The weird things is is that it works in the dash. I can search in…
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ibus: increase font size and spacing beween words

I use ibus to type in different languages. But for some reason for a language other than English the font size is always smaller and the spacing between words much smaller. Is there anyway I can customize these permanently? I have provided a…
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Can't install Anthy

I installed Japanese in the Language Support, and then I went to iBus Preferences Input Method tab, selected "Customize active input methods" and then when I click Select an input method, I can only see China. Why there's no Japanese? iBus version:…
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How to use iBus and m17n for not-shown methods of text entry, such as Sanskrit transliteration (sa-iast)?

Using Ubuntu 16.04, I would like to employ iBus to use Sanskrit transliteration (sa-iast) as a text-input source. But I don't see how to do it. To add an input source in Ubuntu 16.04 would seem an easy, straightforward process: Make sure iBus and…
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How to enable Tamil phonetic mode in 14.10?

As per the earlier findings, I tried with the following commands in terminal mode. But, the Tamil phonetic mode does not get in to the input method of i-bus preferences. sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n After typing the aforesaid command, the…
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