GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 743458
Text entry in Transaction Description is Unusable
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:38:01 UTC
The following problems have come up when doing text entry in description/memo fields in transactions and splits. 1. My Backspace and Delete keys don't work. 2. Standard keyboard shortcuts don't function (Ctrl+A doesn't "Select All"). 3. The auto-completion feature will show a completion as a selection after your cursor, then automatically make the completion on your next keystroke. I am often trying to type something else, and it won't let me.... and my backspace doesn't work... Frustration... I'm using Kubuntu 14.10. I upgraded to 2.6.5 using the GetDeb repository. Alas, that didn't fix it.
Also, my arrow keys don't work in the text entry field.
I can understand this is pretty frustrating. Unfortunately I can't reproduce any of this behaviour on Fedora 20. (In reply to comment #0) > The following problems have come up when doing text entry in description/memo > fields in transactions and splits. > > 1. My Backspace and Delete keys don't work. These work fine here > 2. Standard keyboard shortcuts don't function (Ctrl+A doesn't "Select All"). It does here > 3. The auto-completion feature will show a completion as a selection after your > cursor, then automatically make the completion on your next keystroke. This is indeed known to happen sometimes. I believe there is already a bug report for this. > I am > often trying to type something else, and it won't let me.... and my backspace > doesn't work... Frustration... That makes it pretty difficult to correct your changes indeed... > > I'm using Kubuntu 14.10. I upgraded to 2.6.5 using the GetDeb repository. Alas, > that didn't fix it. Unfortunately I can't help much. Have you reported this on the Kubuntu bug tracker as well ? You may also want to ask for similar experiences on the gnucash-user@gnucash.org mailing list or one of the kubuntu forums.
I have just found bug 730195 in which a similar problem was reported. The reporter found that this issue was with ibus as input method and that xim is not having this problem. Running this command in a terminal would let you switch to the xim input method: im-config -n xim Then, log out and log in again. Then the keys should work as normal again. Does this work for you ?
It does! Thank you very much! I'm off to research input methods and what may have changed mine. I update my financial information more-or-less quarterly, so indeed, my system configuration can change a lot from session to session. I'll leave the bug open for a developer to close because ibus incompatibility may indeed be something to be fixed. It looks like I have ibus version 1.5.5-1 installed
Apparently you're not the only one running into this. Another user filed a bug on the Ubuntu tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/1306500 On Ubuntu the fix is apparently to install ibus-gtk. However on the gnucash-user mailing list another user reported this didn't work for him in Kubuntu...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730195 ***
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