Gnucash won't edit lines after update to Kubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 16 August 2014 17:09, David Kreinick <dlk8 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>     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.

Does installing ibus-gtk fix it permanently for you as in comment #8 in the bug?
sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk

Colin

>             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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