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ddwmusic

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Registered: 2017-07-23

Posts: 34

System update today, input method indicator icon is broken

Today I got the normal Software Updater pop-up, installed the updates, was asked to reboot.

It all seems OK except that the input method icon in the xfce4-panel is now replaced by a slashed-circle "no" icon. It used to be a small "us" but now it looks like this (third icon -- there's notifications, Astrill VPN, then input method, then BT).

Image tag is not working -- try http://www.dewdrop-world.net/tmp/broken-kbd-icon.png to see.

Xubuntu 24.04 with Ubuntu Studio packages -- Linux dlm-tb 6.8.0-64-lowlatency #67.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jun 25 11:40:24 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I live in mainland China, so I (long ago) disabled ibus and installed fcitx. That's been working great, and it still works great -- the input method menu is there and functions correctly; also the input-method switching hotkey is fine. If I switch to Chinese input, the icon changes (correctly) to 拼 "pin" (as in Pinyin 拼音), but if I switch back to English input, then it goes to the broken icon again.

All the functionality is there, just with a "failure" icon. Anyone have any ideas?

TIA,
hjh

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 962

Re: System update today, input method indicator icon is broken

Was the icon theme updated?

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ddwmusic

Member

Registered: 2017-07-23

Posts: 34

Re: System update today, input method indicator icon is broken

So... Ubuntu pushed out another update today, which fixed it.

Can close this one.

hjh