Re: [Kmfl-user] Mnemonic Keyboards

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

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 07:42:35 +0000
Richard Wordingham <ric...@nt...> wrote:

> 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 -

There appears to be a solution to this problem, though I don't
understand it how works.  It was given by Daniil Ivanov in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1235991 on 26 May
2014.  It is to run the command "apt-get purge libibus-1.0-0".

The solution probably depends on having 'use system keyboard layout'
ticked in the 'advanced' tab of IBus Preferences, which is accessible
by running the allegedly obsolete command ibus-setup.

While the implication of the original suggestion is that it worked for
Anthy, and I have found it to work for KMfL, it seems that it doesn't
work for M17n, at least, not for the Korean-input method Romaja.

Richard.