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darehanl

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Registered: 2006-09-08

Posts: 24

Trouble with ibus+libreoffice but not with ibus+openoffice-base

I've been having this problem with libreoffice ever since the switch. I use ibus with the following settings:
XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"
GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus"
KDE_IM_MODULE="ibus"

but if I launch libreoffice the application doesn't respond to any keyboard events, even shortcuts (i.e. ctrl+Q). In addition the ibus-daemon process starts taking up full CPU time. I've tried setting "xim" instead of "ibus" but when I do that I can type, but the characters don't get "committed."

I've just installed openoffice-base and this time ibus works as intended.

onesandzeros

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Registered: 2005-09-16

Posts: 41

Re: Trouble with ibus+libreoffice but not with ibus+openoffice-base

I've just noticed the same problem.  I'll be working on it over the weekend, I guess...:/

Jodell

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 285

Re: Trouble with ibus+libreoffice but not with ibus+openoffice-base

Does the fix in this thread work? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112433

onesandzeros

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Registered: 2005-09-16

Posts: 41

Re: Trouble with ibus+libreoffice but not with ibus+openoffice-base

Does the fix in this thread work? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112433

Yes it does, thank you.

quoting for posterity, boldface mine:

@gorudonu
Just a quick question. Do you happen to use KDE? Try adding this line:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome"

to $HOME/.xprofile . Adding that fixed the problem for me (although you get ugly GNOME file dialogs). Looks like the new KDE integration code added to libreoffice is the culprit.