Starting with the side topic (the easy part).

On 2019-10-23 18:50, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Settings -> Region & Language -> Input Sources presents Chinese as
> an option.  It can be reordered in the list, but it is not clickable.
> It has 'view' (eyeball) and 'delete' (trashcan) icons.  The 'view'
> icon pulls up a useless (for Chinese) keymap.

Ok, so you have previously added the Chinese keyboard layout. It's
actually just an alias to the basic English (US) layout.

Please note that the list you see first only shows the options you have
previously made available by adding them. To look for further sources to
add you need to click the + button.

I installed ibus-sunpinyin, relogged in, and found the Chinese
(SunPinyin) option in Settings among the "Other" input sources. Then I
generated the zh_CN.UTF-8 locale, and found that the Chinese item had
been converted to a sub menu, which includes Chinese (SunPinyin)
together with the Chinese XKB layout.

That's how the GNOME design currently works. Not saying I'm too fond of
it. In Unity (with code from GNOME 3.4 or something) the input sources
were simply presented in one long list, and when you started to type the
source you were looking for, it safely showed up.

I have filed an upstream issue about the most apparent shortcoming with
the current design:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/82

It doesn't directly address the issue you stumbled upon, but it's
closely related.

> What is suspicious about the file?
> 
> I moved the directory aside, started ibus-daemon up again, and the
> problem persists.  The ~/.cache/ibus/compose/e6817ed7.cache file has
> been recreated with identical contents as previously.

It was merely the name of the directory, and the string
"IBusComposeTable" in the contents of the cache file which made me say
that. After all your Delete key seems to do some kind of composing
instead of what it's expected to do.

> The problem persists with these settings, as long as ibus-daemon is
> running.

It's ugly behavior, and all we know so far is that it seems to be caused
by something in $HOME. But it may be due to some other cache file, some
dconf setting, or whatever. I'm out of ideas for now as regards how to
nail it.

Well, one thing you may want to try is to move away the
~/.config/dconf/user file and relogin so it gets recreated with only
default values.

Also, do you possibly have an ~/.XCompose file which you have played
with previously?

*Now* I'm out of ideas.

** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues #82
   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/82

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