Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[yasu]

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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?  
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" 
Cheers,Yasu


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Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[宋文武]

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..

Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[yasu]

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..

Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[宋文武]

yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:

> 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. 😃

Well, I don't know if a guix wiki existed, but we have Guix Cookbook:
<https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/>, it's a info manual build from the guix
git repository, need to work on it more...

>
> I am very excited about Guix - I switched from Nix and I am not going
> back!

Me too, thank you!

Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[Leo Prikler]

Hello, yasu

I recently submitted #44354, which would set GUIX_GTK*_IM_MODULE_FILE
from the system configuration.  Once this patch is merged, you should
be able to add ibus and ibus-anthy to your operating-system packages
and have them picked up from there by gnome.

Note, that this patch would as it is currently likely only set
GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE, because the gnome package does not contain
anything linked against gtk+-2.  If that is a concern, you can add an
application that does to it.  Mine currently looks like this:

```
  (package
    (inherit gnome)
    (propagated-inputs
     `(,@(package-propagated-inputs gnome)
       ;; IBus
       ("ibus" ,ibus)
       ("ibus-anthy" ,ibus-anthy)
       ;; World
       ("dconf-editor" ,dconf-editor)
       ("evolution" ,evolution)
       ("evolution-data-server" ,evolution-data-server)
       ("gitg" ,gitg)
       ("gnome-tweaks" ,gnome-tweaks)
       ("polari" ,polari)
       ("seahorse" ,seahorse))))
```

[As you can see, just ibus and a few more Gnome packages, but none
using Gtk+ 2.]

Best regards,
Leo

Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[yasu]

Hi Leo,

Oh this looks like like exactly what I need!!

https://issues.guix.info/44354

Very much looking forward to this being picked up!!

Thank you so much!

-Yasu


On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 10:23 +0100, Leo Prikler wrote:
> Hello, yasu
> 
> I recently submitted #44354, which would set GUIX_GTK*_IM_MODULE_FILE
> from the system configuration.  Once this patch is merged, you should
> be able to add ibus and ibus-anthy to your operating-system packages
> and have them picked up from there by gnome.
> 
> Note, that this patch would as it is currently likely only set
> GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE, because the gnome package does not contain
> anything linked against gtk+-2.  If that is a concern, you can add an
> application that does to it.  Mine currently looks like this:
> 
> ```
>   (package
>     (inherit gnome)
>     (propagated-inputs
>      `(,@(package-propagated-inputs gnome)
>        ;; IBus
>        ("ibus" ,ibus)
>        ("ibus-anthy" ,ibus-anthy)
>        ;; World
>        ("dconf-editor" ,dconf-editor)
>        ("evolution" ,evolution)
>        ("evolution-data-server" ,evolution-data-server)
>        ("gitg" ,gitg)
>        ("gnome-tweaks" ,gnome-tweaks)
>        ("polari" ,polari)
>        ("seahorse" ,seahorse))))
> ```
> 
> [As you can see, just ibus and a few more Gnome packages, but none
> using Gtk+ 2.]
> 
> Best regards,
> Leo
>