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

[宋文武 <iyzsong@outlook.com>]

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..