I had to do the following to make the kimpanel plasmoid work with ibus: 1. Install kimpanel's ibus backend, which is not included in the Ubuntu package.
wget 'http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/kimpanel/backend/ibus/panel.py' sudo mkdir /usr/share/ibus/ui/kimpanel sudo cp panel.py /usr/share/ibus/ui/kimpanel 2. Make ibus-daemon use kimpanel. I do this by restarting ibus-daemon with the --panel parameter after KDE starts. There are notes about this at the bottom cat > ~/.kde/Autostart/reload-ibus-daemon <<EOF #!/bin/sh pkill ibus-daemon && ibus-daemon --panel=/usr/share/ibus/ui/kimpanel/panel.py --xim EOF chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/reload-ibus-daemon 3. Symlink /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus.svg to /usr/share/ibus/icons, where kimpanel looks for ibus's icon. The directory was created by ibus's package, but it is empty. cd /usr/share/ibus/icons sudo ln -s /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ibus.svg Note Initially I just edited /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus to change XIM_ARGS to XIM_ARGS="--xim --panel=/usr/share/ibus/ui/kimpanel/panel.py", and expected ibus to use kimpanel. However, this did not work. I think it is because ibus-daemon is being started before the kimpanel widget is loaded, therefore, I used the workaround of restarting ibus-daemon after KDE starts, based on a Chinese blog post, <http://songlinyi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9D1E6496716547EE!238.entry>. If this is actually the cause, maybe ibus needs to be modified to wait for the panel to be loaded, or Ubuntu needs to have a way to delay launching ibus-daemon until KDE is fully loaded? -- KIMPanel is unusable in Kubuntu 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
