I created a minimal install of Ubuntu Mate 20.04.01 yesterday and I am just setting up Timeshift and Déjà Dup for backups today. I wanted to roll back some changes I made for gnomegnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts and I thought it would be a good opportunity to test restoring a btrfs timeshift snapshot before I installed either of those packages.
On booting into the snapshot taken just a few minutes prior, I noticed a blue 'EN' in the MATE system tray which I had not before. When I click it a context menu appears with 'English - English (US)' directly underneath it but also directly underneath the panel on the top lefthand-side of the screen under the Ubuntu MATE Menu icon. This context menu on the left is frozen on the screen despite a *mate* - *panel* --reset, but I can remove the right hand side one if I right click the icon. When I reboot the icon is a keyboard but once I click anywhere on the top panel it changes to the blue EN letters. If I right click it and select about it brings up an About IBus popup.
If I right click the icon and select Emoji Choice, the Emoji Window appears top right like the duplicate context menu, is immovable, and there is no close or minimise option.
When I open the menu with this Emoji Window open, to try to open screenshot, no matter what I type a letter e is input first 'escreen', and I can only delete back as far as the letter e.
I tried rolling back again to another snapshot and observed the same issue.
I notced a startup program im-launch with a long command beginning sh and referencing ENV and I disabled it and rebooted but there was no change. I should probably leave this enabled anyway?
I am able to access the IBus preferences and uncheck 'Show icon' in system tray but this is not really a fix. I would like to keep setting up my system backing up as I go, but I am hesitant to do so if I am backing up a problem.
I have rolled back to another snapshot which seems to have fixed this.
Has anyone else observed this?