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laichiaheng

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Registered: 2017-02-12

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ibus-x11 not running under Wayland causes input methods not working.

Some of the input methods doesn't work because ibus-x11 isn't running, like ibus-chewing and ibus-mozc. If I open some of the X11 apps like Steam, those input methods work as expected, or I need to restart ibus-daemon manually by entering the command below:

ibus-daemon -r

By entering the command above, It will activate ibus-x11 by default.

Why is this happening? Is there any workaround?

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Last edited by laichiaheng (2021-04-29 13:02:35)

laichiaheng

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Registered: 2017-02-12

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Re: ibus-x11 not running under Wayland causes input methods not working.

I've found a temporary solution in ArchWiki.

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Note: GNOME has integrated IBus since version 3.6[1] and makes use of it by default, so if you use it as your desktop environment you may skip the next part????????

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Huh??

Second, to launch IBus on user login, create the autostart entry ~/.config/autostart/ibus-daemon.desktop (user specific) or /etc/xdg/autostart/ibus-daemon.desktop (globally) with at least the following contents:

~/.config/autostart/ibus-daemon.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=IBus Daemon
Exec=ibus-daemon -drx

Last edited by laichiaheng (2021-05-08 03:04:46)

ganlu

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From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

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Re: ibus-x11 not running under Wayland causes input methods not working.

This temporary workaround unfortunately doesn't work for me, I just can't find any way to input Chinese right now, omg. By the way ibus-x11 runs when I check out from system monitor, but I can't invoke ibus libpinyin or rime.

Last edited by ganlu (2021-05-04 10:18:25)

laichiaheng

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Registered: 2017-02-12

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Re: ibus-x11 not running under Wayland causes input methods not working.

This temporary workaround unfortunately doesn't work for me, I just can't find any way to input Chinese right now, omg. By the way ibus-x11 runs when I check out from system monitor, but I can't invoke ibus libpinyin or rime.

When I run X11 applications in XWayland, ibus-x11 runs automatically, there is no issue with ibus-libpinyin or ibus-rime in Wayland for me.

By the way, the first step can be ignored, Gnome has done that automatically, but you need to add ibus-daemon.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart/ by yourself.
Don't forget to restart Gnome.

Last edited by laichiaheng (2021-05-08 03:11:52)