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user131040
Asked: 2012-05-12 07:24:55 +0800 CST

How to add iBus to start up applications?

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I use Keyboard Input Methods program for inputting Tamil. I need to manually start it everytime I need to use it. How can I add it to start up?

I don't want it asking me this everytime I start it:

"Keyboard Input Methods (IBus Daemon) has not been started. Do you want to start it now?"

and also this dialog:

"IBus has been started! If you can not use IBus, please open System Menu -> System Settings -> Language Support and set the "Keyboard Input Method" to "ibus", then log out and back in again."

input-method ibus

3 Answers

  1. You need to add ibus-daemon to your startup applications:

    • Open startup applications from the power cog
      powercog
    • Add ibus-daemon
      add-button
      add-dialog
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  2. Similar to the previous post adding ibus to Startup Applications..., I used 

    ibus-daemon --xim

    as in the file /usr/share/applications/ibus.desktop.

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  3. I think a better way of enabling ibus should be the following

    im-config -n ibus

    In older versions of Ubuntu, the following command worked, but it does not work anymore in recent versions of Ubuntu.

    im-switch -s ibus

    There is no need to manually add startup entry for ibus-daemon

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