Gnucash won't edit lines after update to Kubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 17 August 2014 15:41, David Kreinick <dlk8 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>     No, Colin
>     sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk did not seem to do anything. I'm not even
> sure that anything got replaced, since
>>
>> dlk at dlk-2500K:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/ibus
>> total 272
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  14004 Mar 27 14:02 ibus-dconf
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   9760 Mar 27 14:02 ibus-engine-simple
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 162656 Mar 27 14:02 ibus-ui-gtk3
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  83872 Mar 27 14:02 ibus-x11

You could tell whether it did anything by whether it installed it or
said that it was already at the latest version.

>
> looks the same after the apt-get as it did before.  In any case gnucash
> continues to misbehave.

OK, worth putting a note on the bug since that has been suggested as a
workaround.

Colin

>             dlk
>
>
> On 08/17/2014 02:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>      --     David L. Kreinick
>>>>      Wilson Synchrotron Lab W230
>>>>      Cornell University
>>>>      Ithaca, NY  14853-8001
>>>>      (607)-255-7100
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Cornell University
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> David L. Kreinick
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> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY  14853-8001
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