From: yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com>
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong@outlook.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:49:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c9bc8edbc5c0b9e06f0bd66b1069d4a5c71eea2.camel@yasuaki.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PU1PR04MB23109A3821AD0A6B50AA7417A3EC0@PU1PR04MB2310.apcprd04.prod.outlook.com>
I see..., thank you anyway!
I wonder if we can collect of this kind of usability tips in wiki-like
systems somewhere so we don't have to keep digging google for
information. 😃
I am very excited about Guix - I switched from Nix and I am not going
back!
-Yasu
On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 16:41 +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
> yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > After installing packages ibus and ibus-anthy , I thought I would
> > be able to type Japanese - but I had to follow the tip below and
> > manually add these variables to make it work.
> > Would this be considered a bug?
>
> Yes, guix lack supports for input methods.
>
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg08282.html
> >
> > 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"
> >
>
> For these kind of environment variables, we usually set them in
> '.guix-profile/etc/profile' via 'native-search-paths' of a package.
>
> But adding 'GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE' to the 'native-search-paths' of
> 'gtk+' is not good enough or won't solve this issue as we usually
> don't
> install 'gtk+' into the profile. I'd like to find another way set
> them,
> could be add some code to '(guix profiles)' with the 'gtk-im-modules'
> profile hook. Need more thinking...
>
>
> In the meantime, we have to set those environment variables
> manually..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-07 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-07 6:46 Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables? yasu
2020-11-07 8:41 ` 宋文武
2020-11-07 8:49 ` yasu [this message]
2020-11-07 10:43 ` 宋文武
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2020-11-07 9:23 Leo Prikler
2020-11-07 12:07 ` yasu
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