bug#27312: bug#21456: 24.5; Emacs does not respect fcitx as GTK input method

["Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@posteo.net>]

Hi,

I came across this bug report as I was having the same problem, and I
also thought there was a bug in Emacs, as fcitx5 works great everywhere
else.

Note I'm using fcitx5 so it may not be exactly the same for you.

> Specifically:
> ➜  ~ cat .xprofile
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
> export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
> export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8

Apparently these settings should be enough for every application to
work, but when it doesn't work on some application, there is a bigger
hole you have to dig into than simply looking at whether the environment
variables are set properly - because they are, and Emacs respected it, fcitx5
just didn't work in Emacs due to other reasons.

You have to fully utilize `fcitx5-diagnose` to see what is wrong.
1. Open a subshell within Emacs, run `fcitx5-remote` to see if fcitx5 is
    surely not enabled.
2. Run `fcitx5-diagnose` in the subshell *and* outside Emacs (in a
    regular terminal), compare the results, look for errors

I also got help from the fcitx5 maintainer:
    https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/402


Anyways at the end of the day I'm using fcitx5 in Emacs, so I believe this bug
    report should be closed.

Mingde (Matthew) Zeng

Leonard Lausen <leonard@lausen.nl> writes:

> Even though all environment variables are (afaik) set up correctly, and
> fcitx is working in all other programs, it does not work in emacs GUI
> mode. It works fine if I start emacs in the terminal. I compiled emacs
> myself using the Gentoo ebuild.
>
> I would be very thankful for any suggestions. Currently I believe it is
> a bug in emacs (?).
>
> Specifically:
> ➜  ~ cat .xprofile
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
> export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
> export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.15)
>  of 2017-06-10 built on leonard-xps13
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11903000
> Configured using:
>  'configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>  --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
>  --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
>  --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking
>  --disable-silent-rules --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-25.2
>  --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-25.2/html --libdir=/usr/lib64
>  --program-suffix=-emacs-25 --infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-25
>  --localstatedir=/var
>  --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: C
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: zh_CN.UTF-8
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx
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>
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