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Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:27:14 +0200 |
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Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (宋文武) writes:
>
>>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Awesome! Where you able to get this working? I've tried installing it
>>>> From the version you pushed, and I still can't get it to work. Even
>>>> when I set all the environment variables mentioned, and I install all
>>>> the packages (ibus, ibus-anthy, and anthy) to my profile. If you got it
>>>> working, I'd like to know how so I can set it up on my end, too.
>>
>> Yes, I only tested in xterm.
>> set the environemnt variables, run ‘ibus-daemon –-xim -v’.
>> then use ‘ibus-setup’ to add ‘Japanese - Anthy’.
>> in xterm, ‘Super+Space’ work fine.
>>
>>
>> For GTK+ applications, I have to generate the ‘immodules.cache’ file:
>>
>> GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE=/tmp/immodules.cache gtk-query-immodules-3.0
>> -–update-cache
>>
>> GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE=/tmp/immodules.cache gtk3-demo –-run search_entry
>>
>>
>> With the cache (it contains ibus), it will work.
>
> Thank you so much for the tips! I've finally gotten ibus-anthy working
> (partially)! However, I've encountered some additional
> problems/questions, and I hope you can provide some advice:
>
> * When I set up GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE like you've suggested, it works only
> for GTK3 applications. Applications using GTK2 crash due to some kind
> of a version incompatibility problem [1]. However, if I generate the
> immodules cache file with "gtk-query-immodules-2.0", then the same
> thing happens in reverse: GTK2 applications work with Japanese input,
> but GTK3 applications crash. Do you know of a way we can get it
> working for both GTK2 and GTK3 applications simultaneously?
This is the reason why we have GUIX_GTK2_PATH and GUIX_GTK3_PATH. I
don’t set GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE.
> * If the ibus cache in $HOME/.cache/ibus exists, then installing
> ibus-anthy will APPEAR to have no effect. The only way I was able to
> get GNOME's control panel ("All Settings" > "Region & Language" >
> "Input Sources") or ibus-setup to recognize the "Japanese (Anthy)"
> input method after installing ibus-anthy was to invoke "rm -rf" on the
> $HOME/.cache/ibus directory and then restart ibus-daemon (e.g., by
> restarting the xorg-server service). To make it easier to install and
> use ibus-anthy, there a way we can ensure that the ibus cache is
> refreshed when the user installs ibus-anthy?
The cache is a problem. It’s annoying also when upgrading IBus. We
should patch IBus to improve this.
~~ Ricardo
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, (continued)
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/03
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/03
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Luis Felipe López Acevedo, 2016/04/04
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/04
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Luis Felipe López Acevedo, 2016/04/04
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, 宋文武, 2016/04/08
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/09
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, 宋文武, 2016/04/10
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/12
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/17
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English,
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/04/04
- Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English, Chris Marusich, 2016/04/05