Re: Pinyin in GNOME

[Luis Felipe <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

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Hi Felix,

El 22/04/24 a las 0:47, Felix Lechner via escribió:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> On Mon, Nov 06 2023, Tomas Volf wrote:
>
>> Not sure about pinyin, but for ibus I need to set
>>
>>      (simple-service
>>       'im-env-vars home-environment-variables-service-type
>>       '(("GTK_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")
>> 	   ("QT_IM_MODULE" . "ibus")
>> 	   ("XMODIFIERS" . "@im=ibus")
>>         ;; TODO: Are these still required?  If yes, try to get rid of them.
>> 	   ("GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE"
>>          . "$HOME/.guix-home/profile/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache")
>> 	   ("GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE"
>>          . "$HOME/.guix-home/profile/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache")))
> That works locally under EXWM, but have been unable to get ibus working
> under GNOME.  Would someone please post a complete recipe, including
> what to install in which profile, and whether to start GNOME in X or
> Wayland?

I use GNOME in X. In my system configuration I have this package:

   #| NOTE: I'd like to have ibus available to all users by default,

   but last time I checked, this didn't work as expected and I still
   had to install it in user profiles. |#
   (specification->package "ibus")

In the manifest for my user profile I have these packages:

   "ibus"
   "ibus-anthy"
   "ibus-libhangul"
   "ibus-libpinyin"
   "ibus-speech-to-text"

In my ~/.profile file I export these variables:

   # GUIX RELATED VARIABLES TO WORK AROUND BUG #35610
   # https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35610
   # 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"
   # These are needed only to work on Qt apps like TeXmacs.
   export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"  # Set X input method server (xim) to ibus.
   export QT_IM_MODULE="ibus"    # Set Qt input method module to ibus.

Finally, every time I start a GNOME desktop session, I have to run the 
following:

   ibus-daemon -drx

I input Japanese reliably using this. I don't use the other input 
methods often, but they work, as far as I can see.

Hope that helps,

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