On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:06:41 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > I have greater horror-stories to describe if you like > On my recent ubuntu upgrade my keyboard broke -- totally ie cant type > anything. > Here's a detailed rundown... > > Upgrade complete; reboot -- NO KEYBOARD -- Yikes > However login works in X -- after login ... GONE > And ttys (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc) fine; no issue. > <Head scratching> > Searched around.. "Uninstall ibus" seems to be the advice... No go > Some Unity issue it looks? > Installed xfce (from tty) > > Again after few days (some upgrade dont remember which) keyboard broken > Um Now what to install? gnome?? OMG! > > Created a new login... Problem gone... > > Well whats the problem?? Well whatever!! > Finally by chance discovered that the problem was probably uim > uim is an alternative to ibus > I had installed it to make this work: > https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose > > which is aimed precisely at removing this pain:
Umm that comes across as an inversion and misrepresentation. uim got UNINSTALLED in the upgrade [I did it and forgot? it automatically happened?? Dont remember] No uim; no ibus; no input method evidently -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
