Description of problem: IBus can be activated on the search box at the Activities Overview though, the characters in the preedit can be deleted by Backspace. the key events seems not forwarding to IBus. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.27.92-1.fc28.x86_64 gjs-1.51.91-1.fc28.x86_64 ibus-1.5.18-1.fc28.x86_64 ibus-kkc-1.5.22-9.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter into the activities overview 2.activate ibus to start input in native language 3.type something in the search box 4.press backspace key to delete Actual results: no delete in preedit Expected results: should delete characters in preedit Additional info:
reported to upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/108
I can confirm that. The same happens for me in the "enter command" dialog which opens when typing Alt+F2. Deleting characters typed already with backspace does *not* work. Committing the preedit with Return does not work either.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/65
*** Bug 1557169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1557177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Backspace working on search box at Activities overview in Fedora-30 Version release of components: ibus-1.5.20-1.fc30.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.32.0-1.fc30.x86_64 ibus-kkc-1.5.22-11.fc30.x86_64 Hence, moving it to verified. Please re-open if required.