Public bug reported: Broken scim-qtimm package hurts qt's ability to enter anything into spinboxes. The temporary workaround is to remove scim-qtimm, but this removes kubuntu-desktop as well :(
testuser$ sudo apt-get remove scim-qtimm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kubuntu-desktop scim-qtimm Please consider either making scim-qtimm work properly, or removing it's kubuntu-desktop dependancy, or both. ** Affects: qt-x11-free (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- qt doesn't work properly due to broken scim-qtimm https://launchpad.net/bugs/68142 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs