On Thursday, 8. March 2012. 12.23.47 Peter Gueckel wrote:
My system has been working fine. I noticed that the input method
selector
showed that no input method was in use. I also noticed that ibus was
recommended, so I decided to enable it. I logged out and back in, as
directed.
I haven't got a clue what the advantage is and I don't see any difference,
except that there is now an applet in the system tray that says "no input
window", but when I start firefox, it says "english default layout
(intl)".
ibus is recommended, but what am I getting here? I don't see any difference,
excepting the (useless) applet.
Ibus is essential for complicated-to-input-multi-keystroke languages, like
Chinese and such. If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need
it. OTOH, I am not sure how much system resources it uses when idle, so if it
doesn't have a big memory footprint, you can leave it be.
HTH, :-)
Marko