Bug#922334: ibus breaks KDE

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

control: tags -1 - upstream
control: severity -1 wishlist
control: retitle -1 make keyboard input riobust when panel is killed

Hi,

Please note you are the first to complain for the stable system which is
out there for almost 2 years. If there were something so grossly bad, I
should have heard... 

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:35:09AM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> I performed an experiment where I installed a basic Debian stretch in a VM. 
> Then I installed KDE and saw that it was working fine.
> 
> Then I installed ibus. KDE continued to work fine.
> 
> I saw ibus was running and there was the ibus icon in the tray.

That's because "recommends" pulls in im-config which starts ibus daemon.
This is good default since whoever needs to use ibus needs to start it.

> If I exit that, the keyboard stopped working.

You killed input method... so your key stop working.  It's nice if ibus
tray is robust to restart automatically to enable keyboard.  But ...
Excuse me this is not important bug.

Please exit GUI environment if you want to reconfigure.  Please rondomly
kill process and ask nothing happens.

> Why does ibus start automatically in a KDE session but just installing it?

See above.

> Exiting ibus shouldn't break my keyboard, it should just turn off
> input method features.

I don't use KDE.  So far on GNOME side, panel thing is not used.
Any fix suggestion is welcome.

For now, this is user configuration issue.

To stop ibus running while it is installed, 

option1: remove im-config
option2: use im-config to set system wide IM to NONE.

Read im-config

Osamu