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Bug 664040 - Search field in the overview does not support windows shown by input method
Search field in the overview does not support windows shown by input method
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-14 14:47 UTC by Jan Arne Petersen
Modified: 2012-08-22 15:10 UTC
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Description Jan Arne Petersen 2011-11-14 14:47:04 UTC 
Input methods like IBus (Pinyin) or Maliit cannot show windows for input in the search field in the overview. Either they are not displayed at all (IBus) or shown iconified (Maliit).
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2011-11-14 16:34:04 UTC 
How can this be reproduced? There is no drop-down menu for input methods in the gnome-shell search field.
Comment 2 Jan Arne Petersen 2011-11-14 16:41:27 UTC 
In Fedora there is an application called "Input Method Selector" to enable a global Input Method. One can probably also set GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus or GTK_IM_MODULE=Maliit in ~./bashrc and logout/login.
Comment 3 Jan Arne Petersen 2011-11-14 16:49:24 UTC 
One can also change the /org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-im-module dconf key to Maliit or ibus.
Comment 4 Murray Cumming 2011-11-14 16:57:03 UTC 
Thanks. I see that there is then a keyboard icon in the gnome-shell top panel where you can select the input methods that you've added to the IBus preferences. So I guess the gnome-shell developers have already thought about this a bit. 

Maybe it's not related, but I also notice that that is the only icon whose drop-down menu doesn't work in the overview/expose screen.
Comment 5 Jan Arne Petersen 2011-11-14 17:01:03 UTC 
> Maybe it's not related, but I also notice that that is the only icon whose
> drop-down menu doesn't work in the overview/expose screen.

It is related because there are no windows shown in overview/expose screen and that drop-down menu is a "normal" (non shell-toolkit) menu window.
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2011-11-14 17:28:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks. I see that there is then a keyboard icon in the gnome-shell top panel
> where you can select the input methods that you've added to the IBus
> preferences. So I guess the gnome-shell developers have already thought about
> this a bit.

See bug 641531.
Comment 7 Murray Cumming 2011-11-14 19:29:41 UTC 
I filed the (In reply to comment #5)
> > Maybe it's not related, but I also notice that that is the only icon whose
> > drop-down menu doesn't work in the overview/expose screen.
> 
> It is related because there are no windows shown in overview/expose screen and
> that drop-down menu is a "normal" (non shell-toolkit) menu window.

I filed it as bug #664065 .
Comment 8 Rui Matos 2012-08-22 15:10:30 UTC 
This is now implemented in gnome-shell itself.