* ibus-rime: Pressing F4 doesn't show RIME options in some applications
@ 2023-03-27 15:07 Rodrigo Morales
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From: Rodrigo Morales @ 2023-03-27 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Table of Contents
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1. The problem
2. What I've tried
1 The problem
=============
I've installed the package `ibus-rime'. The expected behavior is F4 to
show a dialog for choosing RIME options (see this screenshot of that
dialog which I took in my other Arch Linux system where I also use
RIME: [4]). However, in my system that uses Guix System, pressing F4
doesn't show such dialog in some applications (please see list of
applications below).
Pressing F4 shows dialog with RIME options in
+ flameshot [1]
+ okular
+ vlc
Pressing F4 doesn't show dialog with RIME options in
+ audacity *
+ chromium *
+ fontforge [2] [3]
+ gedit *
+ inkscape *
+ libreoffice *
+ thunar *
+ xournalpp *
+ zathura *
,* The asterisk mean that I was able to use RIME in another system
that uses Arch Linux and have RIME installed.
[1] flameshot is used for taking screenshots on the fly so this app
doesn't have noticeable input boxes. You can make it show an input box
by trying to save a screenshot to a location instead of copying it to
the clipboard.
[2] fontforge is used for previewing fonts. One way to show an input
box is to click on (menu bar) "Element" > "Font Info" > "Copyright".
[3] fontforge was the only application where F4 didn't show the pop-up
dialog in my other system that uses Arch Linux.
[4]
<
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/RIME_options_inside_LibreOffice.png
>
2 What I've tried
=================
I tried setting the following environment variables in my guix home
configuration both in `home-environment-variables-service-type' (which
adds them to `~/.guix-home/setup-environment') and in
`home-bash-configuration' (which adds them to
`~/.bash_profile'). Below you can read the relevant part (just in case
this helps, you can find my complete configuration in
<https://paste.debian.net/1275411/> )
,----
| (home-environment
|
| (... some omitted lines ...)
|
| (services
| (list
| (simple-service
| 'some-useful-env-vars-service
| home-environment-variables-service-type
| '(("EDITOR" . "emacsclient")
| ("GTK_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")
| ("XMODIFIERS" . "@im=ibus")
| ("QT_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")))
| (service
| home-bash-service-type
| (home-bash-configuration
| (environment-variables
| `(("GTK_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")
| ("QT_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")
| ("XMODIFIERS" . "@im=ibus")
| ("GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE" .
"/run/current-system/profile/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache")
| ("GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE" .
"/run/current-system/profile/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache")))
| (aliases
| '(("grep" . "grep --color=auto")
| ("ll" . "ls -l")
| ("ls" . "ls -p --color=auto")
| ("d" . "cd ~/Downloads")))))
|
| (... some omitted lines ...)
|
| )
|
| (... some omitted lines ...))
`----
I've set those environment variables because that's what `ibus-setup'
recommends setting when you execute it without having executed
`ibus-daemon' beforehand. This means that if I execute the following
commands.
,----
| pkill ibus-daemon
| ibus-setup
`----
The following dialog is shown.
,----
| The IBus daemon is not running. Do you wish to start it?
| [No] [Yes]
`----
If I press `[Yes]', the following dialog, which contains information
about the environment variables, is shown.
,----
| IBus has been started! If you cannot use IBUS, add the following lines
to your $HOME/.bashrc; then relog into your desktop.
|
| export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
| export XMODIFIIERS=@im=ibus
| export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
|
| [OK]
`----
In addition to that, I found [this guide] and [this guide] that
provides instructions on how to install ibus on GuixSystem. Both guides
also set those environment variables.
[this guide] <https://guix.org.cn/wiki/guix-system-gnome-ibus/>
[this guide] <https://guix.org.cn/wiki/input-method/>
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