This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.165.4
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language-selector (0.165.4) xenial; urgency=medium
* LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py:
Use "none" as default for non-CJKV languages on certain flavors
instead of "xim" (LP: #1605408).
-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunna...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:23:00
+0200
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605408
Title:
Don't set IM "xim" by default
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in language-selector source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
Since the fix of <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1481025> "cjkv" has been
the system default in im-config for some flavors (e.g. Xubuntu,
Lubuntu), which means that an IM framework is started and configured
only if one of the CJKV languages is the selected display language.
For other languages "cjkv" means that no IM related environment
variables are set (value "none"). However, when starting gnome-
language-selector first time after installation of one of those
flavors, the selected IM method is set to "xim" automatically. This is
undocumented behavior, and the background is commented in the bug
description of <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1585797>.
As illustrated in <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1573755>, the "xim"
input method occasionally causes hard to debug keyboard problems. For
this reason gnome-language-selector should not set "xim", but simply
confirm the "none" default value from im-config.
Some users need "xim" to access X11 dead key and compose key variants,
and this means that they will always need to set it explicitly. The
upside is that users who encounter problems with "xim" will do so as a
result of an active measure, which increases the chance that they
understand the causality.
[Test Case]
On a Xubuntu or Lubuntu system with a non-CJKV display language:
* Remove already set user specific IM configuration:
rm -f ~/.xinputrc
* Open gnome-language-selector, and find that the selected "keyboard
input method system" is "XIM".
After installing the proposed version of language-selector-gnome,
those steps instead result in the value "none".
[Regression Potential]
Low. This is only about the default value applied by gnome-language-
selector, so it doesn't change an already set user specific IM
configuration.
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