[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 478 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 843 bytes --]
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..
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..
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
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!
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 >