IBus frequently asked questions

Ibus can start(a small "i" icon on the system-tray), but control+space can not work(I already setup the shortkey in ibus-setup). Input method can not be triggered. I checked the dmesg, one error shows: "im-ibus.so6321?: segfault at 1 ip 00000001 sp bf993664 error 4", I delete im-ibus.so, and reinstall ibus, but error is still there. The following information shows up when I run ibus-daemon in the konsole:

(ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-WARNING : Connect to unix:path=/tmp/ibus-czl/ibus--0.0 failed. Failed to connect to socket /tmp/ibus-czl/ibus--0.0: Connection refused. (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->ShuangPinSchema?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->FuzzyPinYin?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->AutoCorrect?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->SpellCheck?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->PageSize?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->SupportGBK] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->ShuangPin?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->PhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->NewPhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->UserPhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->SpecialPhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->EnglishPhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->ErrorEnglishPhraseColor?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->UVToTemp] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->ShiftSelectCandidates?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->CommaPageDownUp?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->EqualPageDownUp?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->AutoCommit?] (ibus-daemon:622): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : Can not get value [engine/PinYin?->HalfPunctuations?]

不要过滤掉主键盘的数字不能作为编码的第1个字符吧，数字输入应该区别主键及小键盘的数字，以小键盘为主即可，我用的输入法是三维天然码，编码范畴为1-9及a-z，如下例子： 3j86 少校 34492 8fyy 根据地 31018

码表成功转换，但编码1-9开头的文字均输入不了，均变成数字了。

能不能给提供已经编译好的包呢？ 要是自己编译的话,需要很长时间的,而且还需要很多dev包,折兑平常人来说是用不上的. 谢谢

配置文件在那里了？难道是那个~/.profile,但是并没有从中找到想要的，比如说每次显示几组什么的。

装完ibus以后可以调出输入法，就是系统托盘里没出现图标，而且调出以后也显示红XX... 虽然用起来没什么大碍，但是看不清全半角太闹心了.具体描述在这个帖子里面： http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=196821

ibus 20090508无法使用五笔输入，拼音正常

ubuntu9.04 with ubuntu tweak.I install ibus&ibus-pinyin,but it doesnot work.And it looks as if ctrl+space cannot call out the input method.WHY?I've done nothing since ibus was installed.

Version: IBus 1.1.0.20090508

Add the link http://code.google.com/p/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu to ´how to install on ubuntu´ section.

kubuntu9.04 安装了ibus，在激活的版面里面看不到图片，不知怎么解决。

great app - 多谢！

i don't see option to switch between simplified & traditional. does ibus have that feature?

反馈个问题，看看是不是bug。 在ubuntu9.10下使用，x86. 使用ibus输入完成后，当光标重新被当前窗体一个可编辑的输入框获取时，ibus显示字的面板经常重新被显示出来，并显示若干字母（非上次输入，经常是一两个字母），这些并不是你输入的，但它就是会显示出来。 每次都需要ctrl-space重新关闭打开输入法才回复正常。 看看其他人有没有这个现象。 谢谢，祝越做越好。

新版本ibus-pinyin怎么取消不了模糊拼音，压根没这选项，受不了了

有一个bug一直没有解决： gnome的metacity开启compositing_manager功能后，以后Ctrl+空格开启ibus输入发完成输入，然后再次Ctrl+空格关闭后，屏幕上依然会留下语言栏，只不过是变灰后的语言栏，不能选中，无法取消。只有在手动将ibus输入法退出后才能使其从屏幕上消失。

Hi, i have an english keyboard but sometimes i need to type in german. I know this isn't a IME switch but rather a keyboard layout swtich, how can I do this conveniently in ibus?

Why is there no option to switch from simplified and traditional chinese in PinYin?? Like jwdecambra said, scim has this feature and it is really important. Not having it basically leaves out the entire populations of the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau regions.

You guys might want to add, somewere on the front page and way up at the top, "What is iBus", with answer.

There is a wiki, and a FAQ but I have yet to actually find out what iBus is. So, I'm leaving here to go look for myself and discover what it is, at least to satisfy my curiosity.

berk

Problem to be fixed:

I want to switch to English typing using shift when I'm typing Chinese words．However, IBus can not do this job only if I backspace all the input Chinese sequence before switching. What I want to see is that I can switch my input method whenever I hit the shift key.

BTW， IBus is really better then the previous IM i have tried and thanks you all for bringing it to us

Hi. You know i like this project and want to migrate this project into windows... Can you contact me samlabs821@gmail.com

I'd like to get ibus running on openSUSE 11.2. Got the following packages from the repositories: S | Name | Summary | Type --+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------- i | ibus | Intelligent Input Bus for Linux OS | package i | ibus-anthy | The Anthy engine for IBus input platform | package i | ibus-devel | Development tools for ibus | package i | ibus-gtk | IBus im module for gtk2 | package i | ibus-m17n | The M17N engine for IBus platform | package i | ibus-pinyin | The PinYin?? engine for IBus platform | package i | ibus-qt | Qt IBus library and Qt input method plugin | package i | ibus-qt-devel | Development tools for ibus qt | package i | ibus-table | The Table engine for IBus platform | package i | ibus-table-additional | Additional tables for general table engine of IBus. | package i | libibus1 | IBus libraries | package i | libusb-0_1-4 | libusb-1.0 Compatibility Library for libusb-0.1 | package i | libusb-1_0-0 | USB Library | package

Tried to get things going by running ibus-setup from a terminal, but I only get an error: "~> ibus-setup Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 28, in <module>

import gtk

ImportError??: No module named gtk"

What should I do?

install gtk and gtk-devel packages (I am using Fedora so unsure which are corresponding packages on SUSE)

WTF is I Bus?

how can i type traditional chinese using pinyin?

一个问题，基本在所有的DE的终端里面（gnome-terminal,konsole,lxde-terminal,sakura），只要按alt+tab切出去再切回来，就会出现输入无效的情况。 必须要用鼠标在终端上作一些操作，比如切换标签等，才能正常输入东西（包括英文），应该是ibus的一个bug吧。 distro: archlinux 2009.2 kernel: 2.6.32-ARCH ibus-version: 1.3.1

請問怎樣添加大易繁體中文輸入法呢？我的IBus 1.2.0.20091215下找不到這個輸入法。

ibus有时候我比如我输入一句话：“刚才这个问题”，我输入的时候是这样的：“gagn cai de zhe ge wen ti”然后第一个识别不出来，然后就开始很卡，在输入面板上字母一个一个的出来，很慢，输入完了过后ibus就崩溃了。需要重启，这个问问题怎么解决啊？还有就是大哥能不能像fcitx弄一下ibus皮肤啊，一直用ibus，挺好用的，有个皮肤就完美了。

ibus1.3.10在pidgin2.7.3不能用pagedown翻页，在别的可以，用惯了pagedown，虽然也可用-和=翻页，不过还是希望能解决下吧

Hello there!

Nice work with IBus, I like it alot. Still got a little problem though. I'm using IBus 1.2.0.20091215 for Ubuntu with the input method "Russian translit (m17n)". I can write every sign, only the hard-sign ("ъ") won't work.

In the Info it says to use "~" to write the sign, but it just gives out the "~" (I'm using a german keyboard, so the shortcut for "~" is ALTGr + "+"). Hope you can help me.

Greetings,

Denis.

ibus is better than many other input solutions in Ubuntu for multi-language users like me (using both Chinese and Japanese). Its pinyin is particularly convenient which is similar to some popular Windows input methods, e.g., Sogou, Google pinyin, etc. However, it would be better if ibus pinyin can automatically update word library based on hot words on internet as Google pinyin.

I'm writing also to report a bug in ibus Pinyin in recent release. After a recent (several days, maybe one month, ago) update of ibus components (not sure which ones), a problem occurred when inputing in gedit by ibus pinyin. See below for details.

To faster operate, I prefer using keyboard as input instead of mouse. So when, say, saving a modified file in editor like gedit in Ubuntu, I use key combination "Alt-f" (open "File" menu) and then "s" (select "Save" menu item) to save (faster than "Ctrl-s" for me since to press "Ctrl" one has to move hand). Previously this operation was ok, after that update, I found pinyin input in writing emails in Evolution becomes more convenient, since it won't bring up an annoying "Discard Changes" dialog any more when pressing "ESC" just to cancel a wrong pinyin input (not to cancel writing email). However, the key combination "Alt-f" and "s" in gedit fails. It can be easily reproduced as below.

When ibus pinyin is on and switched to English input by pressing "Shift" (or else latter "s" stroke will bring up a small Chinese character selection window), after "Alt-f" open the "File" menu, pressing "s" (or any other keystokes) will not select "Save" menu item (or other items), the keystroke becomes input in your saving text ('s' becomes the content of the file)!

My Ubuntu is 10.04 . I followed the instructions in http://code.google.com/p/ibus/wiki/PinYinUserGuideCN to install ibus.

By the way, it would be convenient if ibus has a better bug report interface. Thank you.

Hi, I had been using iBus for Chinese input for a few weeks and found some small bugs, which was when I realized I'm using version 1.2 instead of 1.3. I came to the webpage and followed the wiki direction to add the repo and updated iBus. However, it no longer works for me! The iBus icon and config still show up as usual, but under the "Input Method" where I suppose to "Select an input method", it doesn't offer me any options at all! So I can't add any methods to it. I tried uninstall and install again but no help. How could I fix this? Thank you very much! (I'm running Ubuntu 10.04)

(Add to the previous comment)

I noticed that the folder "engine" under "/usr/share/ibus" is empty, could that be the source of problem by any chance?

I use ibus for japanese input method, but it won't wokring. Work only terminal, OS FreeBSD 8.1

It doesn't work in firefox 6. Any resolution?

I'm a Ubuntu user, ibus worked fine for me. However, after I upgraded recently to distribution 11.04 of Ubuntu, the keyboard icon close to clock disappeared and ibus failed to launch when typing "Ctrl+Space". So I decided to reinstall ibus. First I removed ibus by command "sudo apt-get remove ibus" (some related packages also removed, eg. ibus-pinyin ibus-table). Then I used command "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shawn-p-huang/ppa" to add your site, and used command "sudo apt-get update" to upgrade the repository. When upgrading, the following error occurred:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/shawn-p-huang/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/shawn-p-huang/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

I checked your site and found there is no folder 'natty' under http://ppa.launchpad.net/shawn-p-huang/ppa/ubuntu/dists/. 'natty' should be the codename of Ubuntu 11.04 . So you may want to add support for Ubuntu 11.04 .

Now I know Ubuntu 11.04 have newest ibus (1.3.9) in its repository. So no need to use ppa source!

I installed ibus 1.3.99.20110818 on ubuntu. Now I would expect an input method to show me the most probable characters for the pinyin I typed based on some statistics and/or formerly typed phrases. Now when I type "han fei zi" there comes: "汗妃子"

如何一行显示10个字呢？貌似默认的是5个字。