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Just tried a little bit more with fcitx. Found out that the reason why it's also affected is because I'm using the kimpanel extension, which stimulates the same input candidates dialog as the one that comes with ibus.

So it's an ibus issue, then, isn't it?

It probably is. But I don't have this problem when inputting in other applications, at least not like this.

Well, I don't know, from ibus' perspective, inscape should be nothing but another GTK application...

Felix, any idea?

I see two problems out of the description:

1. Candidate always appears out of application window? (if I understand correctly)

This may be caused by the application using xim instead of gtk immodule. Please confirm if the problem doesn't appear for standard dialogs like Open/Save As dialogs. (I'll check this later if you didn't)

If that is the case, try to use "over the spot" as xim style instead of "on the spot", since a fairly amount of applications misbehave with the default value, it wouldn't be a surprise if inkscape on the list too.

2. Candidate window appears out of screen. Since you mentioned kimpanel, this is most likely a bug for kimpanel. Since we don't provide gnome's kimpanel extension in repos, I'd suggest to report it upstream.

1. Yes, it always. Open/Save dialogs are fine. How can I change from "on the spot" to "over the spot"?
2. The reason why I'm using kimpanel is that I switched from ibus to fcitx, cuz I first caught this bug using ibus, so I wanted to check if fcitx has the same issue.

So in conclusion, the default ibus IM that comes with Gnome always has this issue, but fcitx only has this issue if I'm using kimpanel, which which stimulates the same input candidates dialog as ibus one.

Okay, then it's confirmed.

1. I'm not quite sure about ibus, but if you were able to test with fcitx, try:

Fcitx configuration -> Addon Config -> Check "Show Advance option" -> Click the configure button for "Fcitx XIM Frontend" -> Uncheck "Use On The Spot ...".

2. So both the gnome kimpanel extension and gnome + ibus has bug in the interface. Try to open an issue and discuss upstream at:

gnome kimpanel extension: https://github.com/wengxt/kimpanel-for-gnome-shell
ibus / gnome-shell: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell (The candidate popup is in gnome-shell's code base)

The "Use On the Spot" option is already unchecked. So it has nothing to do with that. I will report to upstream.

So it's a bug in inkscape, which didn't report cursor location correctly.

Thanks a lot for diagnosing this. Tyler, could you report it upstream? Cheers.

Will do. Thanks for your guys' help.

For the kimpanel for gnome bug, I've contacted the author, and a fix has been committed [1].

Please try the git master version, thanks!

[1] https://github.com/wengxt/kimpanel-for-gnome-shell/commits/master

Found the inkscape bug reports (with help of Fcitx developers):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/166632
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1002340

It's a 8 year old bug of inkscape and fixed 2 years ago, but no release were made with the fix. Perhaps you can try the latest bzr checkout (aur/inkscape-bzr).

Wow, that is quick. I'll definitely try that when I have time. Thanks a ton!

Inkscape's pkgrel is currently 13 and requires three patches to build. I'm not too keen to increment these two numbers, so if this issue bothers you enough that we should fix it in the repos, I'll consider switching to a bzr snapshot...

Yes pls do. I use inkscape quite often. It's one of the best apps I've found in the open source community.

According to http://inkscape.org/en/develop/next-release/ we're not too far away from inkscape-0.91-pre0; given the amount of changes that has been going on since 0.48 I feel uncomfortable packaging a new inkscape before then. I'll add the patch to this issue for the time being.