Suggestions for Synapse and iBus in 16.10

[lah7]

To me, they sound like bugs in the wider Ubuntu community.

Synapse and iBus have had issues on some user's systems and languages in Ubuntu MATE:

Synapse and IBUS bug

Can someone confirm how to make Ibus and synapse work together. (actually test it). If you add IBUS in language and support, then it crashes the whole Synapse. I need to get both of them working in order to use my system properly. The first problem is the starting conflict. CTRL SPACE. but that is not the problem. When this is changed for Synapse, the crash still exists. I had a post before that did not give me any help. and I found this one which did not have the file that fixed th…

Synapse and ibus

Hello, I installed ibus so I can type pali (language for Buddhists). Synapse is broken now. I uninstalled ibus, but it makes no difference so I reinstalled it. I saw a bug for this in lp but I do not know how to set IBUS_NO_SNOOPER_APPS I also want to set a custom file as stated in http://www.ubuntu4u.com/howtos/how-to-type-romanized-pali-and-sanskrit-in-ubuntu-12041210 but the directory does not exist anymore. Any help on this would be good.

I'm not sure about mapping Synapse to the super key, since that key is used for a fair amount of other shortcuts.

I've renamed the title to make it clear what the topic is suggesting. @Wimpy may be able to chip in with his thoughts?