Slingshot won't search while ibus or fcitx is running

not only ibus,but also fcitx.

I hear about this a lot, so I confirmed it.

I confirm this happen to me too.
To Cody.
Any idea about the patch of this bug will come to Luna stable instead updating to Isis beta?..
i don't want to go on beta in first place.

The fix would be available to Luna users as well, it's just on Isis beta milestone so it gets seen.

When you try to type with ibus-daemon running I get an infinite loop of :

[Gdk] Event with type 8 not holding a GdkDevice. It is most likely synthesized outside Gdk/GTK+

Happens after calling return base.key_press_event (event); anywhere inside the overridden key_press_event method in SlingshotView.vala

Just for clarity, calling return base.key_press_event (event); gives that GDK message and then public override bool key_press_event (Gdk.EventKey event) in SlingshotView is called again and again it calls return base.key_pres_event. That's where the infinite loops is.

Ohh yeahh.. added some more about this bug... when ibus daemon is turned on, i can't use the hotkey to run the Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) .. does the hotkey is a part of slingshot too? ..

Hey.. sorry for double post, but... to ibus users on elementaryOS. i don't know if this work for you all or not, but it does something magic happen to me.
I suddenly can make the ibus work on search on slingshot, before that magic happen work. i quit the daemon first.. then i try to run the daemon back again by typing the daemon name "ibus-daemon" on the search bar and run it as command. then i try to type it and it works... :D..
i'm sorry i can't make a prove of the bugs is figured out, its because my desktop can't do a screenshot (black screen) after installing fglrx :( ..

I'm sorry again for my triple post.. but here it is for the screenshot of the prove.. It works to trigger the ibus character, but when the characters are finalized (non underlined) we still can't delete or backspace it if we made a mistake

Patch
https://code.launchpad.net/~jeremywootten/slingshot/fix-1213321/+merge/182058

I find also one at the scratch .
it is also unable to type in scrathch when ibus is running.

There is already a bug filed for the problem in Scratch which may or may not be related:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/scratch/+bug/1198794

From duplicate report #1220214:

"I bet all eastasia user have this problem.
If you want to reproduce this:
apt-get install fcitx-pinyin
then go to language panel, and change the input method to fcitx, logout,
login.
press Super + Space to open slingshot. You'll find you can not type in
anything.
Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNrdtXdGmY

(ibus and fcitx are two input methods, widely use in eastasia)

Have a good day!"

Thank you Cody ,but unfortunately fcitx either doesn't wok for HANGUL ( Korean Laungae)
Actually For a Hangul nabi works propely

apt-get install nabi

but , I don't know hot to input nabi's indicator to the wingpanel
so that I son't use nabi yet

if you can show me how to move nabi's indicator to wingpanel
it will be a good news for us

As far as I know, fcitx is only for Chinese and Chinese is not the only language used by east Asian people. Korea, Japan and Mongolia have their own languages. They also use different alphabets, although Mongolia uses Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet which is equivalent to Russian one with some additional characters.

For Korean alphabet, I don't think using nabi is a good alternative since it may not work well with some applications (I had this problem before). I'm not sure if the old nabi problem with several applications was already fixed though.

I think a proper and right solution would be making slingshot work well when ibus is running. So rather than suggesting some alternatives, this issue should be solved properly.

Thanks for sharing your world knowledge with us Kevin...

Well, I understand that if you don't use it, you can't easily know what it is or what the problem is.
By the way, speaking of knowledge, here is more enjoyable knowledge although you might not find it funny if you're not Asian. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAH8MgWk43w

Seems to be fixed in the latest version for me.

Still have this problem on Loki (everything latest with daily PPA).

If I `killall fcitx`, It just works.

And I **can** paste text (both English and Chinese) from somewhere to search.

The problem re-appears in Loki.

I can only search in Slingshot if I kill ibus-deamon

Hey Duc,

Can you please open a new bug report for this regression?

This is a duplicate of this report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/slingshot/+bug/1604483

In some language ,like Chinese , we've got mailed from Chinese user with workaround for this issue

$ sudo apt purge ibus-gtk3
Log out and Log in

However, for Korean and Japanese that workaround didn't work.

with ibus-unikey, remove ibus-gtk3 seems work. Now I able to search in Slingshot again.