What is the fix for ibus exit

[Liz]

On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:43:39 -0400
Richard Barmann <dick at stripingthetown.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05/19/2015 11:25 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 19 May 2015 at 16:18, Richard Barmann <dick at stripingthetown.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/19/2015 11:02 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >>> On 19 May 2015 at 15:54, Richard Barmann
> >>> <dick at stripingthetown.com> wrote:
> >>>> Everytime I open Gnucash I have to run ibus exit. Some one had a
> >>>> fix to resolve that but I cannot find the post it was in.
> >>> Install ibus-gtk
> >>> sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk
> >>> then reboot (or maybe just log out and back again).
> >>>
> >>> Colin
> >> I did the above and the terminal says I already have the latest
> >> version. It also says I can remove some unused files after running
> >> and showing the latest is installed. Would my not removing them
> >> affect the ibus exit.
> > No, the autoremove will not have any effect on Gnucash.
> >
> > Did you reboot?
> >
> > What exactly is the problem that you are seeing that makes you want
> > to run ibus exit?
> > What do the following show in a terminal?  (copy/paste the result,
> >
> > apt-cache policy gnucash
> >
> > apt-cache policy ibus-gtk
> >
> > Colin
> Whenever I open Gnucash the forward/back/ delete etc. keys will not
> work until I do ibus exit, after that it is working until the next
> boot. dick at dick-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy gnucash
> gnucash:
>    Installed: 1:2.6.5-1~getdeb4
>    Candidate: 1:2.6.5-1~getdeb4
>    Version table:
>   *** 1:2.6.5-1~getdeb4 0
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>       1:2.6.4-3ubuntu1 0
>          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe i386 
> Packages
> dick at dick-desktop:~$
> Konsole output
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy ibus-gtk
> ibus-gtk:
>   Installed: 1.5.9-1ubuntu3
>   Candidate: 1.5.9-1ubuntu3
>   Version table:
> *** 1.5.9-1ubuntu3 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main i386
> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> dick at dick-desktop:~$
> 
> Dick
> 

Instead of starting gnucash as usual, you need a little bash script
which you run to start gnucash

it would start with 

ibus exit
gnucash