Talk:IBus
Some other stuff
This wiki is great, but was insufficient in my case:
Fresh install: (uname -a) Linux portable-schrek 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 7 06:40:04 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
XFCE 4.8.0
(pacman -Q ibus) ibus 1.3.9-3
and no gnome at all installed (nor gdm, I use slim instead).
All that was written didn't do it. I had to find an obscure comment from a user in a bug tracker somewhere to understand environment variables were missing. I found trace of this nowhere else, so I post here my ~/.bashrc as it is now (with Ibus working):
[matthieu@portable ~]$ cat ~/.bashrc
# Check for an interactive session [ -z "$PS1" ] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -lFh --color=auto' alias emacs='mg' PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' export GDM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 export LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus" export XIM=ibus export XIM_ARGS="-d" export XIM_PROGRAM_SETS_ITSELF_AS_DAEMON=yes export DEPENDS="ibus" export XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus #export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus" #export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus #export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE=~/.immodules
I Hope it helps... Have a nice day!
—This unsigned comment is by Matthieu S (talk) 08:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
IBus setup for Libre Office in KDE Plasma desktop environment
If the configurations in wiki page don't work on KDE, add these following lines to ~/.xprofile . It also makes ibus functional in Libre Office. (this is the perfect workaround for ibus-avro)
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus ibus-daemon -drx
Tzihad (talk) 16:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
'ibus-daemon -d' does not work with libreoffice writer
[jpli@balance ~]$ uname -a
Linux balance 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 6 16:18:35 CEST 2011 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9150e Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
I chose fvwm and slim as my window manager and display manager, no specific desktop environment installed.
My ibus "suite", no other input method installed:
[jpli@balance ~]$ pacman -Qs ibus
local/ibus 1.3.9-3
Next Generation Input Bus for Linux.
local/ibus-pinyin 1.3.11-2
The PinYin Engine for IBus Input Framework.
local/ibus-sunpinyin 2.0.3-1
The SunPinYin Engine for IBus Input Framework. SunPinYin is a Statistical Language Model based pinyin IME by Sun.
I setup ibus in ~/.xinitrc, thought I need not use the extra "--xim" option: [jpli@balance ~]$ cat ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
export GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
ibus-daemon -d
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
exec ck-launch-session fvwm
In ~/.bashrc:
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
Then I found out no Chinese input method can be brought up with Ctrl + space in libreoffice writer When I killed all the ibus processes and restarted ibus using "ibus-daemon --xim -d", the problem was solved.
I suggest to add this "--xim option issue" to wiki once it gets conformed
—This unsigned comment is by Lijpbasin (talk) 15:19, 9 August 2011 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Input Sources and Gnome 3.5+
On Gnome 3.6, I was able to install ibus with limited success, but I was unable to get the IME to reliably turn on. The issue might have to do with the integrating of Ibus into recent versions of Gnome (https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/IBus). Part of this integration has a grand vision that adding input methods (or "input sources") is no different than adding keyboard layouts, and that it will be easy and intuitive. Of course, the current implementation falls short of this goal. I got Japanese input working by adding "Japanese (anthy)" as a keyboard, but it also defaulted to a Japanese keyboard layout (so Shift-2 is ", not @, etc.), but one can choose another layout in Anthy's configuration menu. Chinese input was less successful, as there is no compatible modules for the Rime IME, but there may be for other Chinese IMEs. There is an added benefit that adding IMEs this way includes an indicator applet in the gnome-shell panel, whereas I saw none when using ibus without adding the input-source.
Goodmami (talk) 07:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Using it working with XFCE
It work with XFCE, with the following line in both .xprofile and at the end of .bashrc (need to figure out which one is not necessary):
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus ibus-daemon -drx
Need to restart the session after setting this.
—This unsigned comment is by Popolon (talk) 14:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Launching and configuration in Wayland
Hello, under wayland on plasma, the whole .xinitrc and .profile stuff doesn't work. Even when the daemon is started and .bashrc modified with the IM configured as ibus, the applications won't use ibus. Is it supposed to work on wayland? Is it worth mentioning it in this wiki? Thanks
-- Ivanoff 13:08, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
- I got ibus working on wayland + plasma with following snippet:
~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ime.sh
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
- The result:
- Super+space to switch IME does not work. Need to click IME icon on tray to switch
- Text selection window position is weird. Seems ibus cannot find where the text box is
- Rime and mozc works
- Firefox with wayland environment variable, telegram desktop and vscode (xwayland application) works. Intellij and alacritty does not. But neither one of them works in X anyway
- I would say ibus is at least usable under wayland plasma. Maybe we should add that to the wiki page.
- -- Holi0317 (talk) 07:44, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Shortcut issue
Integration->Tip: KDE appears to cause shortcut problems.
While tip works quite well, after loading ibus there seems to be no way to use keyboard shortcuts.
- Ibus preference set keyboard shortcuts don't seem to register in kde when using this method.
- Kimpanel widget has a shortcut in the config, but it doesn't seem to register in kde.
- shortcut is supposed to have same effect as clicking on the icon, but that just displays list of inputs to choose, not switching input.
- Couldn't find a way to set it up using system settings->shortcuts configuration, maybe dbus calls ? no idea.
- just launching ibus daemon, skipping kimpanel seems to get rid of all this problem (at the cost of integration and having a widget in one place)
Ashton (talk) 14:44, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
IBus and Qt applications under GNOME 40
Although IBus is integrated in GNOME 40, sometimes it does not work with Qt applications such as WPS Office and Zoom. The problem is that in order to get ibus working correctly, you have to pass --xim to the ibus-daemon call (I don't really know why, but it is stated in the wiki page at the moment I'm writing this). We don't really know what parameters does GNOME pass to ibus-daemon, so the solution is to "overwrite" GNOME's ibus initialization command by creating ~/.config/autostart/ibus.desktop with the following content:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=ibus-daemon Exec=ibus-daemon -drx NoDisplay=true
This is useful when one uses GDM to start GNOME, or is using Wayland (and thus placing commands in ~/.xinitrc generally does not help). Also don't forget to set the environment variables as mentioned in the wiki page.
The above configuration works perfectly with ibus-bamboo and ibus-mozc.