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I have the latest 14.4 Lubuntu (Spanish) version already updated. I have found the same bug in two machines. The machines are a 11 year old P4 2.5Ghz, Geforce mx 420 and a 9 year old Dell laptop Pentium Cetrino 1.7 Ghz.

I can focus the cursor on any dialog appearing in Chromium: URL bar, gmail dialogs, composing messages in gmail etc, but I am not able to type anything on them. When I type nothing happens. Is this a known bug in the latest Chromium version? Anything else is correct. I can browse normally and websites are rendered correctly.

I have tried to resinstall Chromium in the two machines and I have deleted the Chromium profile dir but I still unable to type anything, even with a new profile. Firefox runs flawlessly and any other things in the PCs are Ok.

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hey there and thanks for the effort, any other suggestions, update to avoid turning off ibus, it is indeed still not a good fix! – user304159 Jul 10 '14 at 7:23
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Go to Preferences > Language Support and change Keyboard input method system from ibus to none. Then log out and log in again.

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Great! Chromium is working fine now. Thanks for the trick! – user273088 Apr 29 '14 at 11:22
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In Chromium, I have "Settings > Languages" (after first enabling "Show Advanced Settings...." at the bottom). In "Languages", button to modify "Language and input settings...", but nothing about ibus specifically. So I think you mean at the system level to disable ibus. But this isn't acceptable as I need ibus for keying in other applications. – rik-shaw Jun 8 '14 at 13:16
    
@rik.shaw please see askubuntu.com/questions/472224/downside-to-disabling-ibus ... Unfortunately, there's hasn't been any answer. – DK Bose Jun 9 '14 at 2:03
    
Also see code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=360388 – DK Bose Jun 9 '14 at 2:23
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@DKBose, I think the reason no one is answering the other question is because it is up to you if you need ibus or not :). In my work, we use custom ibus keyboads to key in minority languages. Obviously if I turn off ibus, I can't use those custom keyboards. If you aren't using custom keyboards, then it is fine to turn off ibus :) – rik-shaw Jun 9 '14 at 11:03

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