Possible duplicate of 1023165, which I have added a comment to (mainly that I get ibus working correctly by manually reverting to Debian versions of ibus instead of customized ubuntu version, and also by not relying on starting ibus with language support, but start it manually with a custom autostart application)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1012471 Title: Cannot Select Japanese From iBus' Dropdown Menu When Using Gedit Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Prerequisites, setup the following in Ubuntu 12.04: * English (US) * French (Canadian) * Japanese This will end up looking like the screenshot in bug #947872, but I digress... 1) Launch Text Editor (gedit) 2) Click the iBus icon 3) Select Japanese - Anthy 4) Type with keyboard Expected: Japanese characters appear in gedit Actual: No change In contrast, the exact same steps work fine in this text box, the text box that I am using to type this bug report (Using Chrome, あいうえお ...) Regards, To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1012471/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp