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archnoob75

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Registered: 2023-09-08

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[Closed] ibus not working on chrome

I've installed ibus for chinese pinyin input. It works in the terminal, but I was unable to get it work on chrome.

Any help is appreciated, happy to provide more debug info also.

I am using gnome and wayland.

$ pacman -Qs ^ibus*
local/ibus 1.5.28-4
    Next Generation Input Bus for Linux
local/ibus-libpinyin 1.15.2-2
    Intelligent Pinyin engine based on libpinyin for IBus
local/libibus 1.5.28-4
    IBus support library

#
# ~/.bash_profile
#

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

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

chrome://version
Command Line    /app/extra/chrome --disable-features=WebAssemblyTrapHandler,DesktopPWAsRunOnOsLogin --gtk-version=4 --flag-switches-begin --ozone-platform-hint=wayland --enable-features=OverscrollHistoryNavigation --flag-switches-end --ozone-platform=wayland --origin-trial-disabled-features=WebGPU

Last edited by archnoob75 (2023-09-10 04:26:28)

WinFan3672

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Registered: 2023-01-31

Posts: 5

Re: [Closed] ibus not working on chrome

Just use a different browser, Chrome is proprietary and against the free software philosophy. I recommend Librewolf. I can't speak for its Chinese input, but it is better than Chrome.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 57,058

Re: [Closed] ibus not working on chrome

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … nd_support suggests that IM works better w/ gtk4, but https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome doesn't depend on gtk4 but only gtk3
Is gtk4 installed at all?

nb. that the upstream bug suggests that gtk4 + ozone/wayland crashes chromium, what might affect chrome as well.
Also make sure that chrome isn't using xwayland (despite the switch)

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archnoob75

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Registered: 2023-09-08

Posts: 2

Re: [Closed] ibus not working on chrome

Thanks for the link. It's a problem with ozone/wayland in chrome indeed. If I don't specify ozone/wayland, ibus is working fine. --gtk-version=4 indeed crashes chrome.

I switched to using firefox.