Re: ibus + ibus-libpinyin in Gnome

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com> writes:
>
>>> The GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable is set to “ibus”.  I export it in
>>> the shell and launch “soffice” or “icecat” from there.
>>
>> Hmm, I don't have GTK_IM_MODULE set in my ~/.profile (don't remember
>> why I removed it...). I have these:
>>
>> # GUIX RELATED VARIABLES TO WORK AROUND BUG #35610
>> # https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35610
>> # export
>>   
>> GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache"
>> export
>> GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache"
>
> Oh… I remember these from commit 234e7980b54ef37e9a24440ec7219c81d6288a71.
> After setting GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE everything is good.
>
> Thank you so much for reminding me about these variables!
>
> I wonder if we can do better here to provide a working configuration out
> of the box.  If even the author of the patch to add support for the
> GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE variable cannot remember setting it then we
> probably cannot expect users of input methods to figure this out by
> themselves.
>
> Perhaps some desktop service or home service should exist that sets
> these variables for the user (either in /etc/environment or per
> session)?

Perhaps this should rather be the role of a search path specification?
That'd be ideal.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim