RHBA-2021:4533 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for ibus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems.

Bug fix:

• Previously, in GNOME Wayland desktop in RHEL 8.5, the IBus emoji candidate pop-up was used with IBus UI and the selected candidate could not inserted into the target input focus smartly. With this update, the IBus emoji candidate pop-up is used with GNOME-Shell UI in GNOME Wayland desktop and the selected candidate is inserted into the input focus correctly. (BZ#2014064)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2014064 - [RHEL8] On Wayland, ibus emoji selection and input does not work as expected [rhel-8.5.0.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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