Thank you for your bug report, the fedora bug suggests it's fixed in the current ibus version and I can confirm here on raring that the strace command shows no constant polling
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #572611 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572611 ** Also affects: ibus (Fedora) via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572611 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: ibus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: ibus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020212 Title: gtk apps keep polling for $HOME/.config/ibus/bus dir To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1020212/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs