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KDE no ibus icon in the systray

Often when you update Kubuntu (or KDE on other distros), it happens that some new weird troubles with ibus occur. After an update with kde backports, the ibus icon on the systray has gone away... forever. Ibus still works, but I can't get any visible sign of the current input method. I guess that those kind of issues are related to packages like ibus-qt, ibus-gtk and so on.

To solve to problem I went in the KDE System Settings, and selected the Start and Shutdown (or something similar) icon: because ibus-daemon was starting automatically with KDE, I've changed the start up command ibus-daemon -d with:

ibus-daemon -x -r --panel=/usr/lib/ibus/ibus-ui-gtk3

Save, close the session and login again, now the ibus icon should appear on the systray. Basically -r flag (=replace) could be omitted if you're sure there arent other ibus daemons started by programs or scripts in your system. Not sure if flag -x is mandatory or not (it starts the xim server) anyway it doesn't hurt, and now I'm not willing to try the command without it