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iBus (Anthy) not working with Skype 4.1.0.20

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I got Skype working with iBus (and it took a while at the time), but recently both my working set-up (on 12.04) broke, and any attempts for a new set-up (on 12.10) failed. (On 2 separate computers.)

That is to say, iBus does not input in the Skype window any longer. (iBus is running, and selecting the Anthy input method has no effect when the cursor is in the Skype window. It works fine via keyboard shortcut or the iBus menu in other applications.) I have the lines

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus

export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

export XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon

in my .bashrc. And have the qt & gtk versions of ibus installed. Has anything changed for Skype and iBus to stop working?

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answered 3 Years ago emuralm · Accepted Answer

I just found the solution for this!

/usr/bin/ibus-daemon must be started with -x option.

I've added 'iBus' to startup applications with following command:

/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -x -d

I also have following lines in my /etc/environment but I'm not sure if they affect the result somehow (don't really want to experiment now):

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" 

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus

XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

Update: variables mentioned above has no any effect really in case of skype

Update 2: on Fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 I just installed ibus-qt4 (not ibus!) and selected iBus as IME. It works without any additional tricks