GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741222
Rename of events become impossible : keyboard without effect
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:32:17 UTC
Shotwell create himself events for each date of the photos imported. These events are called by there date and can be seen in a tree (left part of the main window). If you want to rename different events, often, after 2 or 3, it become impossible : the keyboard has no more effect. By a right click, you can select the name of the event, but nothing happen when you use the keyboard. Only one way : close Shotwell and run it again. Ubuntu 14.10 64 bits Shotwell 0.20.2
I'm unable to reproduce this. One question: do you have IBus install/enabled on your system? Does it help if you disable it? If that's not the case, we'll need more information about your system and how we can reproduce this bug.
I'd made a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 64 bits with some others applications. Phenom FX8320 ; Asrock mothercard ; graphic card : Radeon 6850 IBus : I don't know. The answer at : dpkg-query -W | grep -i IBus is : gir1.2-ibus-1.0 1.5.8-2ubuntu2 ibus 1.5.8-2ubuntu2 ibus-gtk3:amd64 1.5.8-2ubuntu2 ibus-pinyin 1.5.0-3ubuntu1 ibus-table 1.5.0.is.1.5.0.20130419-2 libibus-1.0-5:amd64 1.5.8-2ubuntu2 libusageenvironment1 2014.01.13-1 libusb-0.1-4:amd64 2:0.1.12-24 libusb-1.0-0:amd64 2:1.0.17-1ubuntu2 libusbmuxd2:amd64 1.0.9-1 libustr-1.0-1:amd64 1.0.4-3ubuntu2 I don't know how to disable...
I suspect you're seeing this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1276186 I think the way to disable IBus is like this: System Settings -> Language Support -> Keyboard input method system: None You'll need to log out and log back in again. Let me know if that solves your issue.
Problem about the same with iBus disabled. Sometimes as well, when I select "rename" in the contextuel menu, the focus go to the next event instead of editing the event. All that doesn't happen at the beginning but after you try to rename several events.
Are you still seeing this problem? If so, maybe a video or precise steps on how to reproduce.
Here is the video of the bug http://ovh.to/T8qCYh8 I renamed several events and you can see when I get to 2014 / septembre / "Mariage Anne Pellicier", I am no more able to change anything of this event name.
At the end, this problem could not be due to Shotwell. I got the same thing in Nautilus and I found this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1385292
Ok, I'm going to close as not Shotwell's bug. Note that the bug you're linking to is also about iBus. There are instructions there for disabling iBus.