Bug 477918

I also found pidgin has similar problem with SCIM. So I think it is a bug of pidgin.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I also found pidgin has similar problem with SCIM. So I think it is a bug of
> pidgin.

are you Chinese?

As my experience, this issue doesn't exist in ubuntu 8.04.

but I forget the current version of pidgin in ubuntu LTS.

Chinese:
我在ubuntu下面似乎没有这样的问题。另外，有的时候在xchat这种情况也会发生，只是我还没有找到怎么在xchat上面重现的规律，有的时候有，有的时候没有。 其他的程序目前尚未发现这样的问题。 那么是不是应该向pidgin组报告呢？pidgin 在fc10下面还没有升级到最新的版本，所以不知道他们修复了这个bug没有。

install pidgin-2.5.3-1.fc10.i386
can input Chinese by ibus in QQ chat window.

(In reply to comment #3)
> install pidgin-2.5.3-1.fc10.i386
> can input Chinese by ibus in QQ chat window.

I'm using pidgin-2.5.4-1.fc10.i386

if the message appears first automatically (popup message, such as Qun message and user offline message), the Chinese input method will not be able to be called.

But, If I open a QQ chat window first manually(without any popup offline messages), I can input Chinese. (they fixed this.)

I am going to guess that this is an ibus bug, especially if SCIM does not have the same problem.  (Does it?)  Reassigning to ibus, especially since there is no way I will be able to solve this myself.

Comment 1 says the problem also exists with scim.
Comment 3 says an earlier version of pidgin is ok with ibus.

Sounds like pidgin upstream should look at this?

There is no way I personally will be useful on this bug.

(In reply to comment #7)
> There is no way I personally will be useful on this bug.

OK, but do you agree it is a pidgin regression?

Warren, can you ask upstream about it, please?

Gong Han, could you also confirm same problem exists with scim?

Are you sure this problem is unique to pidgin?  Sometimes ibus fails to work in specific applications like gnome-terminal or tomboy, while ALT-TAB to another application it works fine.

*** Bug 484607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #11)
> Are you sure this problem is unique to pidgin?  Sometimes ibus fails to work in
> specific applications like gnome-terminal or tomboy, while ALT-TAB to another
> application it works fine.  

I haven't installed SCIM, however, sometimes but seldom, the same problem occurs in every program which requires inputting. more over, especially, the issue happens only regularly on pidgin that I had concluded the re-procedures.

Hi Gong Han,

Please try use 'GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus pidgin' to execute pidgin in gnome-terminal. And tell me if it can fix your problem?

(In reply to comment #14)
> Hi Gong Han,
> 
> Please try use 'GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus pidgin' to execute pidgin in gnome-terminal.
> And tell me if it can fix your problem?  

Hi Huang Peng,

   The issue is fixed by executing 'GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus pidgin'.

Hi Tagoh-san,

Do you have any idea why pidgin does not choice right im module? Is this bug related im-settings, gtk or in pidgin self?

That would be related to gtk+ bug. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567124.

Thanks Tagoh-san. Change the component to gtk+

correct component.

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This upstream issue has been fixed and shipped in F-12, but still happens in F-11.

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not going to backport to f11 at this point, sorry.