Bug 10536

Summary: Cannot use the ^ or ¨ with the french keyboad layout
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-11494+impossible-de-inserer-les-caracteres-et-e-avec-le-clavier.php
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Description Dimitrios Glentadakis 2013-06-15 17:06:02 CEST 
Description of problem: 
I cannot use the accent ^ with a french keyboard. I can type it like:
^e ^u ^o 

I have French keyboard


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2013-06-15 17:10:58 CEST 
The same for the ¨ i type ¨ and after the letter but nothing happens (no output)

URL: (none) => http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-11494+impossible-de-inserer-les-caracteres-et-e-avec-le-clavier.php
Summary: Cannot use the ^ with the french keyboad layout => Cannot use the ^ or ¨ with the french keyboad layout

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-06-29 15:19:38 CEST 
works fine here
Comment 3 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2014-01-09 08:55:45 CET 
It works fine in Librteoffice, Firefox, but not in KDE applications
Comment 4 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2014-01-10 09:38:27 CET 
i run qtconfig
in the tab interface i chose input method ibus (was xim)
and now it works

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME

Comment 5 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2014-01-11 11:20:00 CET 
Also i verified that from a new user, before install the ibus on my system, i could nt reproduce the accents problem.
I could reproduce it with the new user, only after i switched the localisation (from mcc/localedrake) from French to Greek.

After installing ibus i had a problem with the keyboard layout switcher on the system tray of KDE. It was blocked in the English layout and i could nt change the layout with ALT+SHIFT combination as usually.
I opened the KDE keyboard settings and after do a fake modification to enable the 'Apply' button, my settings on the system tray was restored.
But, after reboot i had the same problem, the ENglish Layout is set without be able to switching

So , i tried to set the layout, in ibus-setup or to disable the keyboard layout, without sucess. All settings are not applied/saved

I had a such message:
(main.py:3256): IBUS-WARNING **: org.freedesktop.IBus.Config.GetValue:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed:
Config value [general/hotkey:triggers] does not exist.

which i saw also in the bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4604

As a solution,i added in the run command the -s
Finaly, i have this in my .bashrc:

[...]
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -dxrs


  -d, --daemonize                             run ibus as background process.
  -s, --single                                do not execute panel and config module.
  -x, --xim                                   execute ibus XIM server.
  -r, --replace                               if there is an old ibus-daemon is running, it will be replaced.
 


And now, everything works perfectly.
Even after reboot, i dont have the icon on system tray, so i have the KDE layout switcher as i set from kde systemsettings, and i can type French accents ô ë without any problem as the daemon is launched on every boot.