[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 847565] New: Very slow response or frozen input when input is switched to use other input methods (e.g. Chinese, pinyin)

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Bug ID: 847565
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
          Severity: high
           Version: 17
          Priority: unspecified
                CC: [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail]
          Assignee: [e-mail]
           Summary: Very slow response or frozen input when input is
                    switched to use other input methods (e.g. Chinese,
                    pinyin)
        Regression: ---
      Story Points: ---
    Classification: Fedora
                OS: Unspecified
          Reporter: [e-mail]
              Type: Bug
     Documentation: ---
          Hardware: Unspecified
        Mount Type: ---
            Status: NEW
         Component: ibus
           Product: Fedora

Description of problem:

Slow response or frozen input when input is switched to use other input methods
(e.g. Chinese, pinyin). There is a similar problem with SCIM for Chinese input
too.

When no input methods other than English is used, no problems at all. When the
Chinese input is on, Ctrl+p will make around 10s to get the text actually
pasted into the text filed. It is very often the case that when Chinese method
is switched off it is difficult to get it back util playing around for a while.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ibus-1.4.99.20120712-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
With Chinese input method switched on

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Expected results:

Additional info:

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--- Comment #1 from fujiwara  ---
I cannot reproduce your problem.
Do you use GTK3 applications?
How about setting $GTK_IM_MODULE?

% export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
% gedit

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--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
I think this probably a very tricky bug, it just can't be reproduced so easily
and it may not affect all the users.

I use XFCE for window manager and hardware is Dell LATITUDE E6510.

It doesn't happen all the time, and just not sure when it will happen again.
Sometime when I switch window and try to type in something and nothing can't be
typed in util I disable the input method.

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--- Comment #3 from fujiwara  ---
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> I think this probably a very tricky bug, it just can't be reproduced so
> easily and it may not affect all the users.
>
> I use XFCE for window manager and hardware is Dell LATITUDE E6510.
>
> It doesn't happen all the time, and just not sure when it will happen again.
> Sometime when I switch window and try to type in something and nothing can't
> be typed in util I disable the input method.

Which application do you use?
Did you install imsettings-xfce ?
I cannot reproduce your problem with gedit and gnome-terminal in XFCE

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--- Comment #4 from [e-mail] ---
Thanks for all your suggestions.

I use Firefox, Chrome, Eclipse, terminal mainly. imsettings-xfce was installed.
I have been using fedora since RH 9 (not very correct saying). I never have
such a problem regarding the Chinese input before 17, I think input method can
be applied globally, by application since 17 right?

I am really not sure what cause the problem. I won't compalin anything if
purely English keyboard typing is used as standard input except for when
Chinese input is enabled.

The Chinese input metiod I use is Intelligent Pinyin 1.4.91. Would the problem
caused by the change for making input method being able to applied globally,
application wise?

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail] ---
still happening (Chinese input is enabled), very slow response, tried to type
in something here, nothing happen on the screen not even Chinese. This happened
when I tried to report here that "Ctrl-V" is still not really working, and the
paste action took around 3~5s to get the text actually pasted into the text
filed.

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Could you use `top` to check which program uses the cpu?

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--- Comment #7 from [e-mail] ---
when it happened
top:

24546 xxx    20   0  997m 412m 6072 S 20.6  5.3  44:59.74 emulator-arm      
 2437 xxx    20   0 3003m 818m  22m S  7.6 10.4  69:41.61 firefox           
 1258 root      20   0  277m  73m  10m S  0.8  0.9  27:23.96 Xorg              
 1787 xxx    20   0  470m 5368 3944 S  0.8  0.1   0:47.20 xfdesktop         
20432 xxx    20   0 1066m  90m  19m S  0.8  1.2   0:12.38 chrome            
29238 xxx    20   0  677m  16m  10m S  0.8  0.2   0:03.24 gnome-terminal 
...

emulator is the android emualtor, it is always like that no matter if I have
this problem or not.

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Are you able to reproduce your problem with a new user account instead of the
current user account?

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--- Comment #9 from sangu  ---
This similar issue happanes in hangul input method, too.

Click ctrl + space -> delay -> switch

1. open epiphany
2. login twitter 
3. Swich input method in input form.

epiphany-3.5.90-1.fc18.x86_64
ibus-1.4.99.20120822-1.fc18.x86_64
ibus-hangul-1.4.1-5.fc18.x86_64

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--- Comment #10 from fujiwara  ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> This similar issue happanes in hangul input method, too.
>
> Click ctrl + space -> delay -> switch
> open epiphany
> login twitter
> Swich input method in input form.
>
> epiphany-3.5.90-1.fc18.x86_64
> ibus-1.4.99.20120822-1.fc18.x86_64
> ibus-hangul-1.4.1-5.fc18.x86_64

This is a f17 problem.

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--- Comment #11 from [e-mail] ---
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> This similar issue happanes in hangul input method, too.
>
> Click ctrl + space -> delay -> switch
> open epiphany
> login twitter
> Swich input method in input form.
>
> epiphany-3.5.90-1.fc18.x86_64
> ibus-1.4.99.20120822-1.fc18.x86_64
> ibus-hangul-1.4.1-5.fc18.x86_64

I guess that is the underneath problem, and it is not a problem of a certain
input method then.

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> Are you able to reproduce your problem with a new user account instead of
> the current user account?

I'd like to ask this.

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> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Are you able to reproduce your problem with a new user account instead of
> > the current user account?
>
> I'd like to ask this.

I will try to do this, but you know it is not so easy because new user account
means no normal workflow purly for the testing

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--- Comment #14 from [e-mail] ---
I had tested about 20 minuts with a new acount. It seemed all OK, except that
sometimes the input method notification on right top corner system tray showing
in Chinese input mode, but acctually not.

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--- Comment #15 from [e-mail] ---
As I really can't do my work using the new account, it is hard to say whether
the problem is caused by some settings of the user by just testing it for only
a little while.

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--- Comment #16 from fujiwara  ---
If you rename $HOME/.cache/dconf/user , are you able to reproduce your problem
with your current account?
I'd need to know what was changed in your environment.
I guess you won't reproduce your problem if you clean up all the dot files in
$HOME.

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--- Comment #17 from fujiwara  ---
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> If you rename $HOME/.cache/dconf/user , are you able to reproduce your
> problem with your current account?
> I'd need to know what was changed in your environment.
> I guess you won't reproduce your problem if you clean up all the dot files
> in $HOME.

Correction:
$HOME/.config/dconf/user instead of $HOME/.cache/dconf/user

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--- Comment #18 from [e-mail] ---
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> If you rename $HOME/.cache/dconf/user , are you able to reproduce your
> problem with your current account?
> I'd need to know what was changed in your environment.
> I guess you won't reproduce your problem if you clean up all the dot files
> in $HOME.

After the name change, I had to re-config the Chinese input method in the
keyboard layout. But still, the problem is there. Initially, everything seems
all right. After using the Chinese typing for a while and constantly swithing
between Chinese and English, I found the switching part particularly is quite
buggy. After Chinese input was disabled and I tried to get it back, nothing
happened on screen when I did ctrl-space and I had to played around with
something then came back to make it work again.

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> After the name change, I had to re-config the Chinese input method in the
> keyboard layout. But still, the problem is there. Initially, everything
> seems all right. After using the Chinese typing for a while and constantly
> swithing between Chinese and English, I found the switching part
> particularly is quite buggy. After Chinese input was disabled and I tried to
> get it back, nothing happened on screen when I did ctrl-space and I had to
> played around with something then came back to make it work again.

Actually I asked two ways.
One is to rename $HOME/.config/dconf/user
Another is to move all dot files in $HOME, besides $HOME/.config, to somewhere
e.g. /var/tmp/$USER .

I guess you tried to rename the user file only.

How about the result after you move all dot files?

Also could you attach the screenshot when the input is very slow?

% gnome-screenshot -i

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--- Comment #20 from [e-mail] ---
I removed basically all the dot file in my ~/ and left a few very important
ones (.android, .VirtualBox, etc. stuffs).

So I had to reconfigure almost everything and had tested it for a couple days.
So far so good.

I haven't encounter the slow reponse problem after that but still keep
monitoring it.

The only sideaffect of removing all dot files is that now each time I login,
the input method selector keeps popping up.

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--- Comment #21 from fujiwara  ---
OK, I'd ask you which dot file effect your problem since I cannot reproduce
your problem.
But if you cannot do, probably I'd like to close this bug later.

(In reply to comment #20)
> The only sideaffect of removing all dot files is that now each time I login,
> the input method selector keeps popping up.

The behavior is expected from the beginning in f17.

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--- Comment #22 from [e-mail] ---
Hi fujiwara,

thank you for your time and responses. The dot files I removed are:

.gstreamer-0.10     .pulse-cookie
                          .gtk-bookmarks      .purple
.adobe                    .gvfs               .qt
.appletviewer             .ibus               .repoconfig
.bluefish                 .ICEauthority       .repopickle_.gitconfig
.cache                    .imsettings.log     .scim
.ccache                   .java               .shotwell
.cinepaint                .kde                .shutter
.config                   .leechcraft         .Skype
.CrosslinkValidationTool  .lesshst            .spice-vdagent
.dbus                     .local              .ssh
.esd_auth                 .LTWAssessmentTool  .stardict
.filezilla                .lyx                .subversion
.fontconfig               .m2                 .swt
.gconf                    .macromedia         .thumbnails
.gimp-2.8                 .madedit            .vim
.gitconfig                .mission-control    .viminfo
.git-credential-cache     .mozilla            .xinputrc
.gnome2                   .mypaint            .xscreensaver
.gnome2_private           .mysql_history      .xsession-errors
.gnupg                    .netbeans           .xsession-errors.old
.grl-bookmarks            .orc                .zshrc
.grl-metadata-store       .pki
.grl-podcasts             .pulse

Just yesterday, I encountered this problem again: "Chinese method is switched
off it is difficult to get it back util playing around for a while."

Many Thanks.

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--- Comment #23 from [e-mail] ---
Actually, the Ctrl-P slow response happened again too.

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--- Comment #24 from fujiwara  ---
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> Hi fujiwara,
>
> thank you for your time and responses. The dot files I removed are:
>                       .gstreamer-0.10     .pulse-cookie
>                       .gtk-bookmarks      .purple
>
> .adobe                    .gvfs               .qt
> .appletviewer             .ibus               .repoconfig
> .bluefish                 .ICEauthority       .repopickle_.gitconfig
> .cache                    .imsettings.log     .scim
> .ccache                   .java               .shotwell
> .cinepaint                .kde                .shutter
> .config                   .leechcraft         .Skype
> .CrosslinkValidationTool  .lesshst            .spice-vdagent
> .dbus                     .local              .ssh
> .esd_auth                 .LTWAssessmentTool  .stardict
> .filezilla                .lyx                .subversion
> .fontconfig               .m2                 .swt
> .gconf                    .macromedia         .thumbnails
> .gimp-2.8                 .madedit            .vim
> .gitconfig                .mission-control    .viminfo
> .git-credential-cache     .mozilla            .xinputrc
> .gnome2                   .mypaint            .xscreensaver
> .gnome2_private           .mysql_history      .xsession-errors
> .gnupg                    .netbeans           .xsession-errors.old
> .grl-bookmarks            .orc                .zshrc
> .grl-metadata-store       .pki
> .grl-podcasts             .pulse
>
> Just yesterday, I encountered this problem again: "Chinese method is
> switched off it is difficult to get it back util playing around for a while."
>
> Many Thanks.

Do you mean you cannot reproduce your problem with a new user account but can
do it even if you remove all dot files and re-log in the session?

It's a bit strange.

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--- Comment #25 from [e-mail] ---
I removed basically all dot files which is similar with creating a new user
account. Initially, it works all fine, copy and paste good, switching good.
After after approximately 18 days of usage, problems re-appeared.

As you know, all the dot files will be re-created once the programs start
running, and might accumulate lots of "junks". That might be the problems.

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--- Comment #26 from fujiwara  ---
I still cannot reproduce your problem.
I wonder if your problem could be happened without running ibus.

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--- Comment #27 from [e-mail] ---
I tried SCIM, seemed even worse

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--- Comment #28 from [e-mail] ---
Upgraded F17 to F18, xfce still pops up im-chooser everytime after logging in.
Also, the slow response remains the same with Chinese input method enabled.

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--- Comment #29 from [e-mail] ---
after deleting the main desktop related dot files, all worked alright. However,
same pattern happened, the slow response came back just about 2 weeks later

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--- Comment #30 from [e-mail] ---
the same system wise input method without customization is a bad idea.

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--- Comment #31 from Jens Petersen  ---
Is it only happening in GTK applications?

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--- Comment #32 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #31)
> Is it only happening in GTK applications?

I don't know, and I can't experiment it because I am using Linux Mint now. I am
wishing Fedora could have settings as Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian or the old
Fedora < 16 allowing input method only enabled when it is invoked not every
single appllcation by default, although we can by setting it.

Another thing I found is, one day there is no sound at all, after struggling a
bit, I get the computer sound back by deleting the .pulse. Similarity here is
the dot file again.

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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 847565] Very slow response or frozen input when input is switched to use other input methods (e.g. Chinese, pinyin)

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847565

Jens Petersen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED

--- Comment #34 from Jens Petersen  ---
So what is the conclusion here?

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 847565] Very slow response or frozen input when input is switched to use other input methods (e.g. Chinese, pinyin)

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847565

Fedora End Of Life  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
        Last Closed|                            |2014-02-05 17:46:48

--- Comment #35 from Fedora End Of Life  ---
Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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