[xubuntu-users] ibus not working in 24.04

[David Sumbler]

I used Ubuntu Unity for years until somebody introduced me to xubuntu.
 I love xfce4, and have now installed xubuntu 24.04.

The one problem I have is that I can't get ibus to work properly.  The
panel indicator appears, and the short-cut works for switching between
2 languages (English and Hebrew).  But although the indicator changes,
the language typed is always English.  I have tried adding other
languages, but none of them work.

I have 2 partitions for installing OSes, and I keep a separate
partition for my /home folder.  I tried installing Ubuntu 24.04 - the
standard, Gnome version - on my other OS partition.  I found that ibus
works perfectly, and in fact it shows up with 5 different languages
that I have used at various times in the past (English, Hebrew, German,
French, Spanish).  It obviously picked up these settings from a file in
my /home folder which must have been created when I was using Ubuntu
Unity, where I never had a problem with switching languages.

I tried looking at all the installed packages with names containing
'ibus' on the 2 systems, but I couldn't find much difference.  Gnome
has ibus-table and three ibus-table-cangji packages, which I assume are
for Chinese characters, whereas xubuntu has ibus-m17n which is missing
in the Gnome version.  I tried adding ibus-table, not expecting it to
help, and it didn't!

Can anyone suggest any possible reasons why changing keyboards isn't
working in my xubuntu installation?

David
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