Thanks very much Arun,

will check uim








On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 21:05, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know much about the state of ibus in Guix. When last I checked a
> few years ago, I couldn't get it to work for Tamil. So, I tried uim and
> it worked. Perhaps, just as an immediate workaround until this bug is
> addressed, maybe you could try uim?
>
> My uim setup is as follows. You probably need similar.
>
> Contents of ~/.uim
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define default-im-name 'm17n-ta-tamil99)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Relevant environment variables in ~/.bashrc
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> export
> GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE=~/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache
> export
> GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE=~/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Regards,
> Arun
>