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Dakanya

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 4

ibus is not working with Skype

I can't get ibus to work with Skype even after having installed ibus-qt.

Just to hopefully clarify that my settings are correct, I have the following code in my /etc/profile :

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon

I spotted a solution over at the Google project page but it doesn't seem to apply to me since it asks me to adjust a file that I don't have but is present in Ubuntu.
Quoted from http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=613

I solved this issue by editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default, by copying arguments
from file /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus and the reboot. I am using Karmic on x86_64.
Hope this helps, and my locale is set to English.

My /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default file:

#
# This configuration provides default IM setting (user edittable)
# See im-switch(8) and /usr/share/doc/im-switch/README.Debian .

#
# Define IM for traditional X application with XIM
#
#  XIM server name used for XMODIFIERS="@im=$XIM"
#  XIM program /path/filename
#  XIM program command line arguments
#
#  These were traditional setting before uim and scim for CJK languages
#  Language   LC_CTYPE     XIM server XMODIFIERS              Start key
#  Japanese   ja_JP*       kinput2    "@im=kinput2"           Shift-Space
#  Korean     ko_KR*       ami        "@im=Ami"               Shift-Space
#  Chinese(T) zh_TW.Big5   xcin       "@im=xcin-zh_TW.big5"   Ctrl-Space
#  Chinese(S) zh_CN.GB2312 xcin       "@im=xcin-zh_CN.GB2312" Ctrl-Space
# 
XIM=ibus
XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon
XIM_ARGS="--xim"
XIM_PROGRAM_XTRA=
# Set following variable to non-zero string if program set itself as deamon
XIM_PROGRAM_SETS_ITSELF_AS_DAEMON=
#
# Define GTK and QT IM module
#   They may or may not be using xim as the IM.
#
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus      
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

#
# Define lists of packages neded for above IM to function
#
DEPENDS="ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-qt4"

#
# Define X start up hook script to update IM environment
#

So I'm stumped here on what to do now. If anyone has any ideas, please post! Thanks for your time.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: ibus is not working with Skype

Is it related https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87258 ? Is ibus working with gtk apps?

Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 19:33:49)

Dakanya

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 4

Re: ibus is not working with Skype

I have ibus working with XChat and Anki which are GTK and Qt apps, respectively.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: ibus is not working with Skype

Another similar thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=864825 ,but

The odd thing is, that after that Upgrade.
I'm suddenly able to write japanese in Skype and Opera!

Edit: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 37#p809137

Last edited by karol (2010-12-15 20:12:46)

Dakanya

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 4

Re: ibus is not working with Skype

Oh man I just needed to start ibus-daemon with -x and now it works lol. Thanks a lot, the first thread you linked in your post pointed it out to me.