Gnucash won't edit lines after update to Kubuntu 14.04

[David Kreinick]

     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
looks the same after the apt-get as it did before.  In any case gnucash 
continues to misbehave.
             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
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>>>      Cornell University
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>>
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David L. Kreinick
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853-8001
(607)-255-7100