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thejavascriptman

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Registered: 2020-02-11

Posts: 25

IBus keyboard shortcuts not working on Plasma

After installing ibus and kimtoy, following the configuration at the ArchWiki and trying various configuration combinations, the IBus "Next keyboard method" shortcut simply does not work.

I used this command to install the required packages

sudo pacman -S ibus ibus-kkc kimtoy

I also updated my system using pacman -Syu, here is my kernel version

$ uname -srv
Linux 5.4.60-1-lts #1 SMP Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:53:54 +0000

As stated in the ArchWiki, I added the following lines to my bashrc file

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

And also added this line to .xprofile

export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

I tried running the .desktop file in the ArchWiki as well as creating an autostart script like this

#!/bin/sh
ibus-daemon -drx --panel=/usr/lib/kimpanel-ibus-panel

Finally I added the Input Method widget.

I tried restarting multiple times, running the command manually, changing the keyboard shortcuts, I made sure there are no conflicting plasma shortcuts, and still I can not switch input methods with a keyboard shortcut. I can switch methods normally by clicking the Input Method widget tho.

Is there something I'm missing out?

p.s. For the sake of testing I tried the same configuration on Manjaro under a virtual machine and the keyboard shortcuts worked normally.