Bug 1843643

Summary:	Space bar wrongly mapping to "switch IME" on login (plasma + ibus)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970>
Component:	ibus	Assignee:	fujiwara <tfujiwar>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	i18n-bugs, shawn.p.huang, tfujiwar
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Description Bill Crawford 2020-06-03 17:26:14 UTC

Description of problem:
When I first login and open a konsole window, spaces don't get input to the shell, but seem to cause an input method switch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.5.21-9.fc31

How reproducible:
Log in. Try to type.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose ibus using im-chooser, configure Meta + Space as IME switcher
2. Reboot machine
3. Log in

Actual results:
Typing a space doesn't enter a space in the terminal, but switches IME.

Expected results:
Entering a space enters a space.

Additional info:
 · Configured "switch engine" shortcut it Meta + Space.
 · Meta is Right Win Key, configured in KDE system settings.
 · I suspect there is a startup ordering issue between keyboard layout configuration and ibus starting.
 · Restarting ibus (via right-click on "ibus panel" notification icon) fixes it. It also causes the icon to reappear to the left of the "keyboard layout" icon, which bolsters my suspicion this is an ordering issue.

Comment 1 fujiwara 2020-06-08 02:59:48 UTC

Which desktop do you use? Plasma desktop?


(In reply to Bill Crawford from comment #0)
> 1. Choose ibus using im-chooser, configure Meta + Space as IME switcher

Which tool did you use to configure Meta+space? ibus-setup?

>  · Meta is Right Win Key, configured in KDE system settings.

Probably I think your Win key is Super key instead of Meta key.

Meta, Super, Hyper are virtual modifier keys and they are converted to MOD? internally.
If your platform does not support a key, ibus simply ignore it.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 16:43:18 UTC

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Comment 3 Bill Crawford 2020-11-10 22:04:39 UTC

It's happened once or twice since, but for now it seems to all be working OK.

The Super / Meta thing seems to be a problem with KDE's handling of keyboard mapping; I have "left win is meta" option enabled in the settings.

Closing because I don't have any more information.