diff --git a/components/desktops/lxqt.xml b/components/desktops/lxqt.xml
index 2b20dd4..e4254da 100644
--- a/components/desktops/lxqt.xml
+++ b/components/desktops/lxqt.xml
@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@
 		<ignore name="adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts"/> <!-- Simplified Chinese: replaced by above -->
 		<ignore name="adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts"/> <!-- Traditional Chinese: replaced by above -->
 		<ignore name="pt-sans-fonts"/> <!-- Cyrillic (already supported by DejaVu) -->
+		<!-- these do not currently work: https://pagure.io/fedora-kiwi-descriptions/issue/112
 		<ignore name="@input-methods"/>
 		<ignore name="@admin-tools"/>
+		-->
+		<!-- because the input-methods group exclusion doesn't work, these aren't safe
 		<ignore name="scim*"/>
 		<ignore name="m17n*"/>
 		<ignore name="iok"/>
+		-->
 	</packages>
 </image>