#686 NEdit locks input from time to time

[Amiga Lemming]

I am using NEdit (classic) 5.7-3 as shipped with Debian 11 Bullseye.
The following bug did not occur in 5.7-2 as contained in Debian 10 Buster.
I cannot reproduce the problem, but it occurs at least once a day.
The symptom is, that without an obvious cause NEdit starts blocking input of text and editing and cursor navigation by keys, while Ctrl and Alt commands such as Quit and Save still work. I can also still move the cursor using mouse clicks.
I remember that a similar bug existed many years ago. But at this time NEdit gave a message on the command line when it got locked. This is not the case in the present bug.

[Bert Wesarg]

Dear Amiga Lemming,

I had something similar recently (though Ubuntu 18.0 here), and could pin point it to the fact, that the ibus package was installed. That got in as a dependency of the Zoom client package. Could you check, if this package is installed in your system and if possible remove it again.

HTH,
Bert

[Amiga Lemming]

I can confirm that my Debian Bullseye has ibus:

$ dpkg --list ibus
....
ii ibus 1.5.23-2 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - core

whereas my Debian Buster has no ibus installed:

$ dpkg --list ibus
dpkg-query: no packages found matching ibus

I will go to uninstall 'ibus' and check whether the problem goes away.

[Amiga Lemming]

I worked some days with ibus deinstalled and so far it has solved my problem. Thanks a lot for your remark!