[Kmfl-user] Mnemonic Keyboards

[Richard W. <ric...@nt...>]

I've recently moved on from Ubuntu Precise to Ubuntu Xenial.

There have been a number of problems, which might possibly relate to my
specific problem with mnemonic keyboards.

I'm having trouble using my KMFL keyboards via ibus in non-GTK3
applications.  I'm having to issue the command

ibus-daemon -rxd

before the keyboards will work, despite having

ibus-daemon -xd

in ~/.profile.  That command seems to be being executed, for 'ps -efc |
grep ibus' shows the command 'ibus-daemon -xd' is still active in some
fashion.

I also had to create a shortcut ~/.kmfl/icon to ~/.kmfl/icons for my
KMFL keyboards to work.  (I only discovered the solution by
running ibus-setup.)

My problem with mnemonic keyboards is that they do not work well as
menmonic keyboards.  They interpret my keystrokes as though I were
using a US keyboard rather than a UK keyboard.  Is there a solution,
and if not, will there be one, or is the portable mnemonic keyboard
dead?  In 'IBus preferences', accessed by command 'ibus-setup', 'use
system keyboard layout' is ticked.

dpkg -l reports:

ii  ibus-kmfl      1.0.8-2+xeni i386         kmfl engine for IBus
ii  kmfl-keyboard- 1.4ibus-1ubu all          KMFL keyboard for IPA
ii  kmflcomp       0.9.10-2+xen i386         KMFL (Keyboard Mapping for
ii  libkmfl0       0.9.12-1+xen i386         A Library for providing
ii  libkmflcomp0   0.9.10-2+xen i386         KMFL (Keyboard Mapping for
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1. 1.5.11-1ubun i386         Intelligent Input Bus -
ii  ibus           1.5.11-1ubun i386         Intelligent Input Bus -
ii  libibus-1.0-5: 1.5.11-1ubun i386         Intelligent Input Bus -
rc  libibus-1.0-0: 1.4.1-3ubunt i386         Intelligent Input Bus -
ii  ibus-gtk:i386  1.5.11-1ubun i386         Intelligent Input Bus -
ii  ibus-gtk3:i386 1.5.11-1ubun i386         Intelligent Input Bus -

Richard.