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gehenna14

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Registered: 2024-02-08

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IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

I installed pale moon on my system today, specifically the version that uses gtk2 (palemoon on the AUR) and have found that my IME (IBus and Anthy) Does not work.
I have my environment variables for both gtk and qt set in .xprofile as well as the xmodifiers variable

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

I thought it might work if I specified GTK 2 and it did not work

GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
GTK2_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

What could be the issue here? I'm not sure where to start, can't find anything on google. i have both ibus and ibus-anthy correctly installed and configured, and the IME works everywhere else. I am not sure if this is just a palemoon specific issue either but I don't know any other gtk2 programs to test in.
Thank you.

Last edited by gehenna14 (2025-01-20 03:41:46)

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Re: IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

Mod note: Moving to AUR issues.

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mackin_cheese

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Re: IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

What is the exact error you are seeing when trying to use palemoon?

gehenna14

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Registered: 2024-02-08

Posts: 38

Re: IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

What is the exact error you are seeing when trying to use palemoon?

There isn't any specific error message or anything
When I select Anthy in the IBus IME button in my system tray and try to type in Japanese characters nothing happens and I am only able to type Latin characters.
On all my other gtk3/qt applications this should convert the Latin characters into Japanese characters.
This is happening even when I have the environment variables set for IBus to work properly.

mackin_cheese

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Re: IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

Have you checked the settings in palemoon? like character encoding settings?

gehenna14

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Registered: 2024-02-08

Posts: 38

Re: IME (ibus) does not function on programs built with gtk2

Have you checked the settings in palemoon? like character encoding settings?

Looking in Pale moon's preferences I can only find "Character encoding for Legacy content", setting this to things from the default like UTF-8 and Japanese don't seem to fix it.
Looking in about:config there is a boolean entry called browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding, but I'm not sure what this does as I couldn't tell if it changes anything.