Gnucash won't edit lines after update to Kubuntu 14.04

David Kreinick dlk8 at cornell.edu
Sat Aug 16 12:09:17 EDT 2014


     Thank you, Tony.
     Yes, "ibus exit" seems to fix the problem.  I'm glad this is a 
known bug, so I can hope that it will be fixed soon.  In the meantime, I 
will be typing "ibus exit" daily.
             dlk

On 08/16/2014 09:51 AM, Tony Likhite wrote:
> I had the same problem with  Lubuntu 14.04. Per 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/1306500, try 
> running 'ibus exit' before you start gnucash and see if that affects 
> the problem.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:37 PM, David Kreinick <dlk8 at cornell.edu 
> <mailto:dlk8 at cornell.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/14/2014 07:59 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>         On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:43 AM, David Kreinick <dlk8 at cornell.edu
>         <mailto:dlk8 at cornell.edu>> wrote:
>
>             Ever since I upgraded my OS to Kubuntu 14.04 from 12.04, I
>             am unable to use the keyboard to edit transaction lines. 
>             The delete and backspace keys don't work, and typing in
>             text has no effect. There is a workaround:  I select the
>             text I want to replace with the mouse, and type in the
>             replacement text.  I have not seen this behavior in any
>             other programs.
>             I am running gnucash 2.6.1 on an Intel Core I-5.
>
>         Does text entry work anywhere else? The easiest place to try
>         is likely the account editor (select the "new" button when the
>         Accounts page is visible).
>
>         Regards,
>         John Ralls
>
>
>         Yes, John, that does work.  If I select a "new" account I can
>     type into the name field and the backspace and delete keys work
>     fine.  I only see the problem when trying to edit on an existing
>     or new transaction line.
>                 dlk
>
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